Male name
When is Dionysis’ name day?
Διονύσης · Διονύσιος · Dionysis
Main name day
Saint Dionysius the Areopagite
The Greek name Διονύσης (Dionysis, formally Διονύσιος) is celebrated on 3 October.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Dionysius the Areopagite1st centuryMember of the Areopagus who, according to Acts, believed after the Apostle Paul's speech; patron saint of Athens.According to the Acts of the Apostles, Dionysius was a member of the Areopagus in Athens who came to believe after the Apostle Paul spoke there.Read more
- Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos16th–17th centuryArchbishop of Aegina (1547–1622) and patron saint of Zakynthos, known for forgiving his brother's murderer.Dionysios was born in 1547 on Zakynthos into a well-off family, under the secular name Draganigos (or Gradenigos) Sigouros. He became a monk at the Strofades monastery under the name Daniel and was later ordained a priest.Read more
- Venerable Dionysios of Olympus16th centuryA 16th-century monk from Sklataina near Karditsa who lived as an ascetic at Meteora, on Mount Athos and on Mount Olympus, where a monastic community gathered around him.Dionysios was born around 1500 in Sklataina near Karditsa (today's Drakotrypa) with the given name Demetrios. At eighteen he became a monk at Meteora and later moved to Karyes on Mount Athos, where he was ordained priest and took the name Dionysios.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Formal (church) form
- Διονύσιος
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Νιόνιος
- In Latin letters
- Dionysis, Dionysios, Dionisis
- English equivalents
- Dennis, Dionysius
- In Greek
- Διονύσης