Male name
When is Methodios’ name day?
Μεθόδιος · Methodios
Main name day
Saints Cyril and Methodius
The Greek name Μεθόδιος (Methodios) is celebrated on 11 May.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saints Cyril and Methodius9th centuryBrothers from Thessaloniki, enlighteners of the Slavs.Cyril (born Constantine) and Methodius were brothers from Thessaloniki. In the ninth century they were sent from Byzantium as missionaries to Great Moravia.Read more
- Saint Methodius the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Patara3rd–4th centuryBishop in Lycia and church writer, known for his works against the teachings of Origen, who according to tradition was martyred in the early 4th century.Methodius served as a bishop in Lycia — tradition connects him with Patara, while other sources call him bishop of Olympus and later of Tyre — and was a philosopher and church writer, best known for his work "The Symposium of the Ten Virgins, or On Chastity".Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Methodios
- English equivalents
- Methodius
- In Greek
- Μεθόδιος