Methodios: Name Day
Orthros keeps the name day for Methodios on June 14 on the New Calendar and June 27 on the Old Calendar: the feast of St Methodios of Constantinople.
The saint
St Methodios of ConstantinopleBorn in Syracuse, Methodios entered monastic life, by one tradition on the island of Chios and by another in Bithynia, and rose to become abbot there before the iconoclast controversy overtook his career: on returning from Rome around 821 he was arrested and exiled under the emperor Michael II, released only in 829, and spent the years that followed navigating a position at the court of an even more committed iconoclast, the emperor Theophilos.Read the life ›Questions
- When is the name day for Methodios?
- Orthros keeps the name day for Methodios on June 14 on the New Calendar and June 27 on the Old Calendar.
- Which saint's feast is the name day for Methodios?
- It is the feast of St Methodios of Constantinople.