When is Theoklitos’s name day?

Theoklitos 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 Theoklitos is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Theokletos the Martyr

  February 26, Martyr, Θεόκλητος

  Theokletos was a sorcerer who was sent to poison St. Photini and her companions in Rome. Seeing that the poison did them no harm, he came to believe in Christ and was baptised.

  Name days: Theokletos, Theoklitos

• Theokletos of Lacedaemonia

  December 1, Hierarch, Θεόκλητος Λακεδαιμονίας

  Theokletos was Archbishop of Lacedaemonia in the Peloponnese, remembered by the Church as a wonderworker. Tradition places him in the Byzantine period and relates that he shepherded the people of the region of Sparta with pastoral zeal, working miracles both in his lifetime and after his repose. He is honoured as a patron of the Church of Sparta and Monemvasia.

  Name days: Theoklitos, Theocletus

Also celebrating with Theoklitos

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

Theokletos, Theocletus

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.