The name Athanasius is Gk. Athanasios, from athanatos "immortal."
There are several saints with this name:
- St. Athanasius ο κομενταρήσιος (January 4)
- St. Athanasius of Attalia the Martyr (January 7), Gr. Άτταλείας
- St. Athanasius the Martyr (January 13)
- St. Athanasius of Alexandria (January 18), also known as Athanasius the Great (translation of relics celebrated (May 2)
- St. Athanasius the confessor (February 22)
- St. Athanasius the Martyr (March 9)
- St. Athanasius, founder of Meteora monasteries (April 20)
- St. Athanasius, martyred from witchcraft (April 23)
- St. Athanasius of Brest-Litovsk, the Russian (September 5)
- St. Athanasius of Thessaloniki, the new-Martyr (September 8)
- St. Athanasius, the first Patriarch of Constantinople (October 28)
- St. Athanasius, the priest-martyr (October 29)
- St. Athanasius, the martyr (November 7)