Male name
When is Ignatius’ name day?
Ιγνάτιος · Ignatios
Main name day
Saint Ignatius the God-bearer
The Greek name Ιγνάτιος (Ignatios) is celebrated on 20 December.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Ignatius the God-bearer1st–2nd centuryBishop of Antioch martyred in Rome in the early second century; several of his letters survive.Ignatius was bishop of Antioch at the end of the first century and, according to tradition, a disciple of the Apostles.Read more
- Saint Ignatius Agallianos, Metropolitan of Methymna1492–1566A priest from Lesbos who, after losing his wife and most of his children, became a monk and founded the Monastery of Leimonos, and from 1531 until his death in 1566 served as Metropolitan of Methymna.Ignatius was born in 1492 in the village of Faraggas on Lesbos, the son of the priest Emmanouel Agallianos. Under his birth name John he married young and likewise became a priest, but after losing his wife and nearly all his children to an epidemic, he withdrew to the Taxiarchis Monastery at Leimonos.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Ignatios
- English equivalents
- Ignatius
- In Greek
- Ιγνάτιος