Talk:Religious name

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This article is listed as a Roman Catholic stub, and in the talk page, as relating to the Buddhist Wiki, I think this needs to be changed though, in both subjects. There are many religions that use religious names. Perhaps the subject can be added individually to Buddhism and Roman Catholicsm, but for the purposes of this article, I think those tags need to be changed.

--Silverwolf85 07:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree, this article is about a non-affiliated term. There are pages for each religion-specific term, which certainly fall under each project. However, each project has vested interest in the content of this page. It should accurately reflect the information about each practice of name-giving and name-changing. The stubs and project tags should be removed, but the source articles also need to be incorporated better.
-- mordel (talk) 17:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

"Jews who have non-Jewish legal names often have a patronymic Hebrew name which is used for religious purposes."

I often wonder why so many (even orthodox!) modern day Jews have first names with Christian origin like Andrew, John, Marcus, Paul and Peter. In the end, there are a lot of possible neutral Hebrew (Jacob and Joseph), classical (Alexander, Jason and Philipp) and Germanic names (Gerald, Richard etc.). Can anyone explain?--80.141.195.122 (talk) 08:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is only in Russian Orthodoxy that a lay person's name is required to be a name of a saint. In many other Slavonic countries, like in Serbia and Bulgaria, this is not the case. Names of pre-Christian origin are OK there, and people do not have other names. (This causes many problems when non-Russian Orthodox worshippers travelling around Russia want to order a mass for the health of their relatives - some Russian priests refuse to perform such masses because of the 'pagan' names).95.25.45.229 (talk) 16:32, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]