When is Theodoulos’s name day?

Theodoulos can be celebrated on 4 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 Theodoulos is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Theodoulos son of Nilus

  January 14, Venerable, Θεόδουλος

  St. Theodoulos was the son of St. Nilus the Ascetic. Living with his father among the monks of Sinai, he was carried off in a barbarian raid and later ransomed; tradition relates that he was afterwards ordained and lived in asceticism with his father.

  Name days: Theodoulos, Theodulus

• 

  Theodoulos

  April 5, Martyr, Θεόδουλος

  St. Theodoulos was a young reader of the church of Thessaloniki who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century. Tradition remembers him together with the elder deacon Agathopous; refusing to surrender the holy books or deny Christ, the two were condemned and cast into the sea.

  Name days: Theodoulos

• Hesperos and Zoe with their sons Kyriakos and Theodoulos

  May 2, Martyr, Έσπερος, Ζωή, Κυριάκος και Θεόδουλος

  Hesperos and Zoe were Christian slaves of a pagan master in Attalia of Pamphylia in the second century, and raised their two sons Kyriakos and Theodoulos in the faith. When the family refused to eat food offered to idols, the master had them tortured.

  Name days: Hesperos, Esperos, Theodoulos, Theodulus, Zoe, Zoi, Zoey

The other feasts are listed in the table above, each with a link to the saint’s life.

Also celebrating with Theodoulos

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

Theodulus, Hesperos, Esperos, Zoe, Zoi, Zoey, Theodoulis, Theodouli

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.