When is Theodora’s name day?

• Mar11

  11 March

  Saint Theodora of Arta

• Saturday of Saint Theodore

  Saturday of Saint Theodore (first Saturday of Lent)

• Feb8

  8 February

  Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates

This is a movable feast: it depends on the date of Orthodox Easter and changes every year.

• 2026Wednesday 11 February 2026Saint Theodora the Empress
• 2027Thursday 11 February 2027Saint Theodora the Empress
• 2028Friday 11 February 2028Saint Theodora the Empress

• Saint Theodora the Empress9th centuryByzantine empress who restored the veneration of icons in 843.Theodora was born in 815 in Ebissa, Paphlagonia. In 830 she married Emperor Theophilos, an iconoclast, while she herself continued to secretly venerate icons.Read more
• Saint Theodora of Arta13th centuryQueen of the Despotate of Epirus, wife of Michael II Komnenos Doukas.Theodora was born around 1210-1216, probably in Thessalonica, the daughter of the sebastokrator John Petraliphas, governor of Thessaly and Macedonia. Orphaned of her father while still young, she was raised at Servia near Kozani under the protection of her uncle, Theodore, ruler of Epirus. In 1230 she married Michael II Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus, and settled with him in the capital, Arta.Read more
• Saint Theodore the Recruit4th centurySoldier and martyr from Amasea in Pontus.Theodore was a new recruit (tiron) in the Roman army and was martyred in the early fourth century.Read more
• Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates4th centuryA military commander from Euchaita, based at Heraclea Pontica, who was martyred under Emperor Licinius in the early 4th century.Theodore came from Euchaita in Asia Minor and served as a military commander (stratelates) at Heraclea Pontica. When Emperor Licinius began persecuting Christians, Theodore gathered the city's gold and silver idols on the pretext of offering sacrifice, then broke them up and gave the precious metal to the poor.Read more

Other Greek forms and diminutives

Δώρα, Θοδώρα

In Latin letters

Theodora, Dora

English equivalents

Theodora

In Greek

Θεοδώρα