Which St. Alexander? Every Saint Named Alexander

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Which St. Alexander? 13 saints and blesseds named Alexander have full entries in this encyclopedia. They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, arranged century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. Alexander from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. Alexander Briant, St. Alexander Hotovitzky and St. Alexander I.

2nd century

  • St. Alexander I died c. 115 · Feast day May 3

    St. Alexander I was bishop of Rome in the early second century, the fifth in succession after St. Peter according to St. Irenaeus.

3rd century

  • St. Alexander of Comana died 249 · Feast day August 11

    St. Alexander of Comana, called the Charcoal Burner, was a learned man of third-century Pontus who hid his gifts by working as a poor charcoal burner, until St. Gregory the Wonderworker chose him as bishop of Comana.

  • St. Alexander of Jerusalem died c. 251 · Feast day March 18

    St. Alexander of Jerusalem was a bishop in Cappadocia who, after suffering for the faith, came to Jerusalem as a pilgrim around 212 and was kept there as coadjutor to the aged St. Narcissus.

4th century

  • St. Alexander of Bergamo died c. 300 · Feast day August 26

    St. Alexander of Bergamo was a Christian soldier martyred at Bergamo in northern Italy around the year 300.

  • St. Alexander of Constantinople c. 240–c. 337 · Feast day August 30

    St. Alexander of Constantinople was the aged bishop of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, in the years of the Council of Nicaea.

  • St. Alexander of Rome 4th century · Feast day March 27

    St. Alexander of Rome was a young Christian soldier who, at eighteen, refused the emperor Maximian's order to sacrifice to Jupiter.

13th century

  • St. Alexander Nevsky c. 1220–1263 · Feast day November 23

    St. Alexander Nevsky (about 1220 to 1263) was a Russian prince of Novgorod who defeated the Swedes on the Neva in 1240 and the Teutonic Knights on Lake Peipus in 1242, then kept peace with the Mongol Golden Horde.

14th century

  • St. Alexander Peresvet died 1380 · Feast day September 20

    St. Alexander Peresvet was a Russian monk of the fourteenth century, by tradition a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, who rode out alone against the Tatar champion at the start of the Battle of Kulikovo on September…

16th century

  • St. Alexander Svirsky 1448–1533 · Feast day August 30

    St. Alexander Svirsky (1448–1533) was a Russian monk who lived as a hermit and founded a monastery near the Svir River.

  • St. Alexander Briant c. 1556–1581 · Feast day December 1

    St. Alexander Briant was a young English priest from the West Country, arrested in 1581, starved, racked and tortured in the Tower of London, and admitted to the Jesuits while in prison.

  • St. Alexander Sauli 1534–1592 · Feast day October 11

    St. Alexander Sauli (1534–1592) was a Barnabite priest from Milan, a teacher at the University of Pavia, superior general of his order and the confessor of St. Charles Borromeo.

20th century

  • St. Alexander Hotovitzky 1872–1937 · Feast day December 4

    St. Alexander Hotovitzky (1872–1937) was an Orthodox priest who served in America for eighteen years, built St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, and later died a martyr for Christ in Soviet Russia.

  • St. Alexander Schmorell 1917–1943 · Feast day July 13

    St. Alexander Schmorell (1917–1943), called St. Alexander of Munich, was a Russian-born German medical student and Orthodox Christian who co-founded the White Rose, the student resistance group that wrote and spread…

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