A baptismal name for a boy
Zosimas
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Zosimas
Venerable Zosimas of PalestineApril 4Venerable of Palestine of the sixth century, commemorated on 4 April.
Venerable Zosimas of SolovkiApril 17Russian hermit, one of the founders of Solovetsky Monastery in the White Sea; died in 1478.
Hieromartyr Zosimas PepeninOctober 20Priest born in 1888 to a peasant family, who died a martyr in the Karlag camp in 1937; canonized in 2000.- Venerable Zosimas of OrenburgSeptember 28Monk born in 1860 in the Orenburg region, who died in 1920 at St Nicholas Monastery in Orenburg; a local saint.
- Venerable ZosimasJune 4A holy monk commemorated in the Serbian Orthodox calendar.
- Venerable ZosimasJanuary 24A venerable father commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Venerable ZosimasMay 8A monastic ascetic commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Saint ZosimasMarch 11A saint of the undivided Church, commemorated in Western calendars.
- Venerable Zosimas of XenophontosAn Athonite elder of Xenophontos Monastery, who reposed in 1996; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Zosimas of EsphigmenouAn Athonite elder of Esphigmenou Monastery, who reposed in 1902; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Zosimas of SecuA 16th-century hieroschemamonk, founder of Secu Monastery; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Zosimas the Hermit of PocrovA hermit near Pocrov skete in the Neamț region in the 18th-19th centuries; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Zosimas is April 4, the feast of Venerable Zosimas of Palestine. It is also kept on April 17, October 20, September 28, June 4, January 24, May 8, March 11.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Zosimas, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Zosimas is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Zosimas of Palestine as patron.