Macarius

Macarius is a Latinized form of a Greek given name Makarios. The old-Greek word Μακάριος makarios (mak-ar'-ee-os) is a prolonged form of the poetical μάκαρ makar (of the same meaning); supremely blessed; by extension fortunate, well off: - blessed, happy.

In other languages the name has the following forms:

• Finnish: the given name Kari or Karri. Derived surname: Mäkäräinen.
• Greek: Makarios
• Italian: Macario, which is also a family name
• Portuguese: Macário
• Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian: Makar (Макар) or its archaic/Church Slavonic form Makariy (Макарий), -ий being a common Russian language rendering of Greek and Latin suffixes -ios/-ius/-ium. Makariy is still in use in the context of the Russian Orthodox Church, which uses Church Slavonic traditions. Derived surnames: Makarov/Makarova, Makarenko, Makarchuk, Makarevich.
• Serbian: Makarije

People named Macarius

• Macarius of Egypt: (300-390) Egyptian monk and hermit. Also known as Pseudo-Macarius, Macarius-Symeon, Macarius the Elder, or St. Macarius the Great
• Macarius of Alexandria: Also known as Macarius the Younger.
• Macarius of Antioch: Patriarch of Antioch, deposed in 681.
• Macarius Magnes
• Macarius of Jerusalem
• Venerable Macarius of Yellow Water Lake and Unzha (1349-1444), founder of several Russian monasteries.
• Macarius (1482-1563), metropolitan of Moscow
• Macarius III Zaim, Melkite Patriarch of Antioch from 1647 to 1672
• Macarius, elder of Optina monastery
• Macarius I, head of the Holy Synod in 1879-1882 in Russia, better known as his church's leading historian.
• Macarius II, head of the Holy Synod in 1912-1917 in Russia.
• Macarius of Alexandria, a martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
• Makarios I, archbishop of Cyprus from 1854 to 1865.
• Makarios II, archbishop of Cyprus from 1948 to 1950.
• Makarios III, archbishop (1950–1977) and president of Cyprus (1960–1977).
• Makarios Nkya of Tanzania (1968-todate)