Male name
When is Theofilos’ name day?
Θεόφιλος · Theofilos
Main name day
Saint Theophilos the Myrrh-streaming
The Greek name Θεόφιλος (Theofilos) is celebrated on 8 July.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- The Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorium9th centuryByzantine officials captured by the Arabs at the fall of Amorium (838) and put to death in 845 for refusing to renounce Christianity; among them was the patrician Theophilus.The forty-two martyrs were Byzantine generals, officials and nobles - among them the patrician Theophilus and the protospatharios Theodore - who defended Amorium in Phrygia when the caliph al-Mu'tasim besieged the city in 838.Read more
- Saint Theophilus the Deaconearly 4th centuryA deacon of Nicomedia who, according to the Synaxarion, was stoned to death for his faith; he is commemorated with Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, Zeno, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Glycerius and Mygdonius, martyrs of the same persecution.Theophilus was a deacon in Nicomedia and belonged to a group of senators who were arrested after a church in which thousands of Christians burned alive was set on fire by order of Emperor Maximian.Read more
- Venerable Theophilos the Athonite15th–16th centuryAthonite monk from Zichna (c. 1460–1548) and copyist of manuscripts at Iviron who declined to become Metropolitan of Thessaloniki; he is called the Myrrh-streaming because his relics exuded myrrh.Theophilos was born in Zichna, Macedonia, around 1460, and became a monk and priest, travelling to teach the word of God. He formed a spiritual bond with Saint Nephon, a former Patriarch of Constantinople, and in 1511 settled at the Iviron monastery on Mount Athos, where he became a noted copyist of manuscripts; around thirty of his works are still kept in the monastery's library.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Theofilos, Theophilos
- English equivalents
- Theophilus
- In Greek
- Θεόφιλος