When is Timos’s name day?

Timos 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 Timos is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Timothy the Apostle

  January 22, Apostle, Τιμόθεος

  St. Timothy the Apostle was the beloved disciple and fellow worker of St. Paul, who called him his true child in the faith. A native of Lystra, born of a Greek father and a devout Jewish mother, he accompanied Paul on his journeys and received from him the two epistles that bear his name. He served as the first Bishop of Ephesus.

  Name days: Timotheos, Tim, Timos, Timothy

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  Timothy of Symbola

  February 21, Venerable, Τιμόθεος

  St. Timothy of Symbola was a monk who lived the ascetic life at the monastery of Symbola in Bithynia, in Asia Minor. From his youth he embraced obedience, fasting, and unceasing prayer, and the synaxaria remember him as a vessel of purity who received from God grace to heal the sick and drive away evil spirits.

  Name days: Timotheos, Tim, Timos, Timothy

Also celebrating with Timos

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

Timotheos, Tim, Timothy

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.