When is Nicetas’s name day?

Nicetas can be celebrated on 2 feasts in the Orthodox calendar. People keep the feast of the saint they were named for, or the one their family has always kept.

Every feast on which Nicetas is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Nicetas the Confessor

  April 3, Venerable, Νικήτας

  St. Nicetas the Confessor was abbot of the monastery of Medikion in Bithynia in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. A gentle father to his monks, he guided his community in prayer and asceticism until the renewal of iconoclasm, when he refused to reject the holy icons and was imprisoned and exiled by the emperor.

  Name days: Nikitas, Nicetas

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  Nikitas the Great Martyr

  September 15, Martyr, Νικήτας ο Μεγαλομάρτυς

  St. Nikitas the Great Martyr was a Goth living beyond the Danube in the fourth century. Converted to Christ, he confessed the faith boldly among his own people, and when a persecution arose against the Christians of that land he was seized, tortured, and given over to death by fire around the year 372.

  Name days: Nikitas, Nikitas, Nicetas

Also celebrating with Nicetas

These names share the feast, many of them other forms of the same name:

Nikitas

What to say on a name day

The Greek wish is Χρόνια Πολλά (Chronia Polla), “many years.” A call or a short message on the day is what people remember. See name day wishes you can send and what a name day is.