What Is Your Real Name, and Your Church Name?

[AJB4]

This area of Orthodoxy has always interested me. Probably above a lot of other ideas. I'm just wondering, what is your 'birth name', or your regular name, and your 'church name' or 'saint name', or do you use your Saint name in everyday life, outside of church?

[Knowledge3]

My real name is Wesley Paul and I attend St. Peter's Antiochian Orthodox Church of Ft. Worth Texas.

[Oblio]

Christopher in both cases

[Greg the byzantine]

Gregory- Gregory That was easy :)

[ufonium2]

Angeline by birth, chrismated "Angelina" after Angelina of Serbia.

[kamikat]

AJB4, be aware that many people don't like to give out that kind of personal info on the internet.

[EricTheRed]

My name is Eric and I do no have a church name yet

[eoe]

By "Church name" is is not asking the name of your church - he is asking your baptismal name.

rob - john

[InnerPhyre]

Michael - Michael


Everyone at church actually CALLS me Michael though, whereas I go by Mike elsewhere.

[irishseventysix]

Michael - Michael


Everyone at church actually CALLS me Michael though, whereas I go by Mike elsewhere.

Rhett - Jude

And people at church use them interchangably. Sometimes, I'm "Hey Jude". I swear...I was born with a name that gets lots of one-liners, and now I've taken a name that gets 'em, too.

[Khaleas]

My real name is Jennie and my church name is Xenia. Some people call me Jennie at church, some call me Xenia and some call me Jennie-Xenia. I answer to all. Soon I'll be officially Jennie Xenia Helena ... I'm taking my paperwork to the Circuit Court tomorrow (note: there is no requirement to change your name officially, I just really like my church name)

[JasonV]

Jason. My Mormon church name was Mosiah. Was going to take Onuphirus.

[ModernDaySpyridon]

Christopher- Spyridon

Although Christopher is technically a saint name already, I still wanted to chose a saint to signify my ewntrance into the EOC.

Everyone still calls me Chris though. ;)

[irishseventysix]

Christopher- Spyridon

Although Christopher is technically a saint name already, I still wanted to chose a saint to signify my ewntrance into the EOC.

Everyone still calls me Chris though. ;)

Would you mind if I started calling you Spiro? :P

[Tsarina]

My name is Eric and I do no have a church name yet

Arn't you getting baptized really soon?

[Breaking Babylon]

My name's Blake, and, I'm pretty sure that my baptismal name will be Isaac.

[Nickolai]

Real name - Jesse
Christian name - Nikolai

Churches
- Holy Assumption of St. Mary Orthodox Church - Pittsburgh, PA
- St. Tikhon's Monastery Church - South Canaan, PA

I'm called Nikolai most of my day since I live in an Orthodox environment, But my parents usually still call me Jesse.

[NyssaTheHobbit]

My real name is Jennie and my church name is Xenia. Some people call me Jennie at church, some call me Xenia and some call me Jennie-Xenia. I answer to all. Soon I'll be officially Jennie Xenia Helena ... I'm taking my paperwork to the Circuit Court tomorrow (note: there is no requirement to change your name officially, I just really like my church name)

This sounds a lot like SCA names.

[ByzantineDixie]

Given name: Rosemarie
Church name: Mary

I am only called Mary during a church service or blessing or prayer by my priest. At church and elsewhere I am called Rose or Rosemarie.

[Annabel Lee]

Given name: Rosemarie
Church name: Mary

I am only called Mary during a church service or blessing or prayer by my priest. At church and elsewhere I am called Rose or Rosemarie.

:) Another Rosemarie..technically. My birth certificate is Rosemarie, but my baptismal certificate is Rosemary.
So have always used Rosemary or Rosie.

[Khaleas]

This sounds a lot like SCA names.
SCA? *scratch*

[EricTheRed]

Arn't you getting baptized really soon?
At first he said around Theophany but do to Fr. Johns busy schedule as of late (new mission in tyler, spanish liturgies etc etc) it will be later so he does not have to do short cuts in class. All he has said now is Pascha or before

[DonVA]

Don is my real name.
John is the name I was given at baptism.

[ByzantineDixie]

:) Another Rosemarie..technically. My birth certificate is Rosemarie, but my baptismal certificate is Rosemary.
So have always used Rosemary or Rosie.

Annabel Lee, there has always been something about you that I liked a lot...and now the icing on the cake. You must be a great person to have such a great name! ;)

[DavidBryan]

Birth name - David Bryan (called Bryan by most outside the Church)
Church name - Was Peter at chrismation, was tonsured Rdr. David.

[Oblio]

SCA == Society (for) Creative Anachronism, the good folks who put on Renaisance Faires

[choirfiend]

:cool:Ah, we are a bunch of dorks here, aren't we?

[AlaskaFan]

Legal name: Anthony
Christian name: Anthony :D

[DavidBryan]

:cool:Ah, we are a bunch of dorks here, aren't we?

Y'think? ;)

[Khaleas]

SCA == Society (for) Creative Anachronism, the good folks who put on Renaisance Faires
Oh ok, LOL...

[MariaRegina]

Legal name: Elizabeth

Church name: Elizabeth

[rusmeister]

I have a Biblical name that happens to have a day that is celebrated by the Church, so no need for different names.

[Ioan cel Nou]

I was baptised James (as a Protestant) and as there are more than a few Sts. James I chose one of those to be my patron (specifically St. James the Persian) when I was Chrismated, so I'm James in both situations. Interestingly, my cradle Orthodox children aren't normally known by their saints' names outside of Church, but then that's quite common in the Romanian tradition, where you'll fairly often find children baptised with double names, e.g. Traian-Ioan, where one is the patron saint's name and the other is the name they're commonly known by.

James

[gzt]

my real name is g z t and my baptismal name is the z, though both g and z are Christian names.

[Dewi Sant]

Christopher,
Christopher

Though it tends to be Chris in either case.

I do like it in the Greek spelling: Χριστοφερ
It means 'Bearer of Christ'.


I haven't had to choose a church name yet, though, everyone knows I'll stick with my birth name.

[Dewi Sant]

BTW, the screen name 'ramesses'.

I had budgies at one time, and the first one was called 'Ramesses I'
The next one, 'Ramesses II', then 'Ramesses III'

Ramesses I flew away :(
Ramesses III was rescued and didn't last long :(
Ramesses II died fairly recently.

I don't think we'll have a Ramesses IV


The Ramesses was a title name,
The first one was called 'Harry', the next was 'Franco' and the other was 'Augustas-Luigi' :D

[Mary of Bethany]

Mary Lou (good ol' Texas name, which I've always hated :sick: )

so, of course, Mary

[michaeldimmickjr]

real name - michael
Church name - michael

in IC XC,
michael

[silouanathonite]

Real name - Dwayne
Baptismal Name - Silouan

My parents call me Tommy even though they gave me the name Dwayne. Everyone outside of my family in the world calls me Dwayne. I find it weird and uncomfortable if they call me Tommy. I've had that nickname since I was born & it only feels right when my family calls me that. It goes back & forth at Church with what people call me. They either call me Dwayne or Silouan.

[EricTheRed]

Mary Lou (good ol' Texas name, which I've always hated :sick: )

so, of course, Mary
NEVER BE ASHAMED! TEXAS FOREVER! :P

[VickiY]

Maria-Victoria legally, Maria-Victoria baptismally (yes, I have two patron saints)

[The Prokeimenon!]

Real name: not Moses

Church name: Reader Moses (as in St Moses the Black)

[EmperorConstantine]

Real name: Mitch

Church name: Constantine, after the emperor

[elizabethcynthia06]

My real name is Cynthia, my church name is Elizabeth, as in Elizabeth the New Martyr. In church, the priest uses my church name and sometimes others do inside or outside church, mostly, though, I go by Cynthia

[nikostheater]

Nicholas.I was born in an Orthodox family so my real name is my church name...

[jckstraw72]

Jesse and Jesse. Yeeeeeeah father of King David!