Which St. Basil? Every Saint Named Basil

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Which St. Basil? 8 saints and blesseds named Basil 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. Basil 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. Basil the Great, Blessed Basil Hopko and Blessed Basil Moreau.

4th century

  • St. Basil the Elder died c. 340 · Feast day May 30

    St. Basil the Elder was a Christian teacher of rhetoric in Pontus, in the early fourth century, the son of St. Macrina the Elder and the husband of St. Emmelia.

  • St. Basil of Ancyra died 362 · Feast day March 22

    St. Basil of Ancyra was a priest of Ancyra in Galatia (today's Ankara, Turkey) who defended the faith of Nicaea against the Arians and was martyred under Julian the Apostate on June 29, 362.

  • St. Basil the Great c. 330–379 · Feast day January 2

    St. Basil the Great (about 330–379) was bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, a defender of the Nicene faith against the Arian emperor Valens, and the father of Eastern monasticism.

8th century

  • St. Basil the Confessor died 750 · Feast day February 28

    St. Basil the Confessor was an eighth-century Byzantine monk who, with his fellow monk St. Procopius of Decapolis, was tortured and imprisoned by the iconoclast emperor Leo III for honoring holy icons.

10th century

  • St. Basil the Younger died c. 944 · Feast day March 26

    St. Basil the Younger, also called Basil the New, was a holy man of tenth-century Constantinople who stayed in the homes of the faithful and guided them by prayer and counsel.

17th century

  • St. Basil of Ostrog 1610–1671 · Feast day April 29

    St. Basil of Ostrog (1610–1671) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop of Zahumlje and Skenderija in Herzegovina who spent his last years in prayer at Ostrog, a monastery built into a cliff in Montenegro.

19th century

  • Blessed Basil Moreau 1799–1873 · Feast day January 20

    Blessed Basil Moreau (1799 to 1873) was a French priest of the Diocese of Le Mans who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross, the family of priests, brothers and sisters that went on to found the University of Notre…

20th century

  • Blessed Basil Hopko 1904–1976 · Feast day July 23

    Blessed Basil (Vasil') Hopko (1904–1976) was the Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop of Prešov in Slovakia.

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