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There are so many posters here with unusual monikers/names.

I think that it would be wonderful if you could explain them to us, since they obviously hold much meaning to you.

Thanks!

In Christ,
Alice

byzanTN is easy. I am Byzantine and from Tennessee. No Byzantine plots or conspiracies here at all.

pyrohy=pierogi. Just like them, so picked the name. It could change at any given time however to something just as exciting

Dear Pyrohy,

Obviously you are a man of discerning taste, who likes good food!
Maybe we will see a Greek named 'Souvlaki' here one day!

Alice

Mine is a Greek name, although not Greek, meanin a crown.
Stephanos I
PS the I is not that I have any pretensions
Just happened that after the Crash of some years back it would not let me on again with the old screen name Stephanos so I had to re register with the I
BysanTN and here all this time I thought you were a Byzantine Teenager. Duh! Oh well you learn something new every day.

Kadylo is incense.

I like swinging it, and I have been known to make a holy fog in the Church on occasion.

Fr. Bo

well, now seems like a good time to explain that I chose doulos because St Paul calls himself the doulos, slave, of Christ. Only problem is, I am a woman, but I didn't want to use the feminine form because the term "doula" now means a woman who assists with child birth and new babies. As lovely as that sounds, that is not what I do, so I didn't want to make it sound like I did(I've got the honesty thing). So I chose a masculine name and accompanied it with a very feminine avatar of a mother and child=, because I'm a homeschooling mom and my kids and my role as a mom are very important to me. Confused yet?
Michele

Great responses so far!

I am still waiting for SultanofSuede and Slavipodvizhnik.... and other unusual or foreign names to explain!

Slavipodvizhnik is Russian for poor, lousy, inept (Slavi) spiritual athlete/warrior(podvizhnik). A Podvig is a spiritual feat, or obedience. Basically, it is a fancy way to say that I am a sinner.

Alexandr

I'm lousy at coming up with names for things, pets, etc. So, when I had to give a screen name, I looked around for inspiration. I noticed that the name of the speakers of my computer was "harman/kardon". So, I took "harman" and I changed it to "harmon" for harmony -- a thing which I long for and seek to help others with. As for "3110", it is the date I gave my life over to God: 31 October 2000.

-- harmon3110 (John)

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I've always translated it in my head as "She Who Mourns."

We were sat around the table after lunch one Sunday and everyone said to the group what they name would be in Russian. A number of the older members of the congregation always used their tradtional names. My Christian names would be Pavel Ivanovich. My dad is a John/Ivan.

ICXC
NIKA

I think mine is self explanitory!

A "Diak" ("dyachok" in some Old Believer villages) was the village cantor, and in addition to his cantoring had other duties from teaching catechism to helping the priest clean out his barn and other chores.

I was a diak for years before being ordained subdeacon and later deacon.
FDD

BTW, Alice... what does YOUR name mean?