Dorotei este un nume grecesc purtat de multe personalități și sfinți de-a lungul timpului. În gracă Δωρόθεος înseamnă „darul lui Dumnezeu” de la δῶρον (dōron), "dar" și θεός (Theós), "Dumnezeu". Semnificația numelui este aceeași cu cel de Teodor, dar cu cele două vocabule inversate.
Sfinți
- Dorotei din Cezareea, mucenic (prăznuit la 6 februarie)
- Dorotei din Chiliocomos, cuvios (prăznuit la 5 iunie)
- Dorotei din Gaza, cuvios (prăznuit la 13 august)
- Dorotei din Kachine, cuvios (prăznuit la 6 februarie)
- Dorotei din Megares, mucenic (prăznuit la 16 august)
- Dorotei din Nicomidia, mucenic (prăznuit la 28 decembrie)
- Dorotei din Theba, cuvios (prăznuit la 5 iunie)
- Dorotei al Tirului, ierarh (prăznuit la 5 iunie) Jn05
- Dorotei, mucenic (prăznuit la 18 februarie)
Personalități
- Dorotheos (sculptor) (5th century BC), of Argos, to whom Kresilas was pupil
- Dorotheus of Sidon (fl. 75), Hellenistic astrologer
- Dorotheus of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre
- St. Dorotheus (martyr), who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter in the 4th century
- Dorotheus (poet) (fl. 4th-century), Christian poet best known for The Vision of Dorotheos.
- Dorotheus of Antioch, (c. 388 – 407), Arian Archbishop of Constantinople
- Dorotheus (jurist) (fl. 534), Byzantine jurist who helped draft the Justinian Code
- Dorotheus of Gaza (505–565), monastic father
- Pope Peter IV of Alexandria, also known as Dorotheos (ruled in 565–569)
- Dorotheus of Hilandar (fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos
- Dorotheus I of Athens, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392
- Dorotheos II of Trebizond, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472
- Dorotheos of Ohrid, 15th-century bishop
- Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (d. 1611), Patriarch of Antioch from 1604 to 1611.
- Dorotheus of Mount Sinai and Raithu, Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu
- Archbishop Dorotheus of Athens, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957
- Dorotheos of Adrianople
- Dorotheos the Younger
- Dorotheos Polykandriotis, Church of Greece
- Pseudo-Dorotheus, 3rd-century Christian writer
- Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, 17th-century Greek chronicler
Surse
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorotheus
- Sinaxarul Părintelui Macarie de la Simonos Petras