Male name
When is Seraphim’s name day?
Σεραφείμ · Serafeim
Main name day
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Saint Seraphim of Phanari
The Greek name Σεραφείμ (Serafeim) is celebrated on 2 January and on 4 December.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Seraphim of Sarov18th–19th centuryRussian monk and ascetic, one of the best-loved saints of Russia; he died in 1833.Seraphim (born Prokhor Moshnin) became a monk at the Sarov monastery in Russia and lived for many years as a hermit in the forest.Read more
- Saint Seraphim, Bishop of PhanariHieromartyr and bishop of Phanari in Thessaly.Seraphim was born in the village of Bezoulia in the Agrafa region and became a monk at the Monastery of the Panagia Korona (Krya Vrysi), where he was noted for his asceticism and became abbot. He was later ordained archbishop of Phanari and Neochori.Read more
- Saint Seraphim of Domvou16th–17th centuryAscetic from Zeli in Boeotia who founded a monastic community at Domvou, on the western slopes of Mount Helicon, and died in 1602.Seraphim, born Sotiris, came from Zeli in Boeotia. While still young he withdrew to hermitages in the region, first on Mount Karkara and then at the Monastery of the Transfiguration on Mount Sagmatio, where he was tonsured a monk and ordained priest.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Serafeim, Serafim
- English equivalents
- Seraphim
- In Greek
- Σεραφείμ