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'''Macarius''' is a [[Latinization (literature)|Latinized]] form of the [[old Greek]] [[given name]] '''Makários''' (Μακάριος), meaning "happy, fortunate, blessed";<ref>{{citation | editor= [[Henry Liddell]] | editor2= [[Robert Scott (philologist) |Robert Scott]] | entry= μάκαρ | title= [[A Greek–English Lexicon]] | edition= 8th | year= 1897 | page= 915}}</ref> compare the [[Latin]] [[Beatus (disambiguation)| ''beatus'']] and [[Felix (name) | ''felix'']]. Ancient Greeks applied the epithet ''Makarios'' to the gods.<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1                = de León
 | first1               = Juan Luis
 | chapter              = La muerte en Grecia y Roma
 | title                = La muerte y su imaginario en la historia de las religiones
 | url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=eBeaBD3WtvAC
 | series               = Serie Verde
 | edition              = 2
 | location             = Bilbao
 | publisher            = Universidad de Deusto
 | publication-date     = 2008
 | page                 = 132
 | isbn                 = 9788498306927
 | access-date          = 15 July 2021
 | quote                = El epíteto ''makarios'' (bienaventurado) era aplicado antiguamente a los dioses. 
}}
</ref>

In other languages the name has the following forms:
*Finnish: the given name [[Kari (name)|Kari]] or Karri. Derived surname: [[Mäkäräinen]].
*Greek: Makarios (Μακάριος)
*Armenian: Մակար (Makar)
*Italian: Macario (also a [[family name]])
*Portuguese: Macário
* Spanish [[Macarena (name)]]
*Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian: '''Makar''' (Макар) from [[Church Slavonic]] '''Makariy''' (Макарій). Derived surnames: [[Makarov (surname) |Makarov]]/Makarova, [[Makarenko]], [[Makarchuk]], [[Makarevich]].
*Serbian: [[Makarije (disambiguation) |Makarije]]/Макарије
*Romanian: Macarescu (surname)
*French: Macaire
*Dutch: Karis, Kerris (also a surname)

==People named Macarius==
*Macarous of Alexandria, a martyr, saint, and companion of [[Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria]]  (died 250)
*[[Macarius of Egypt]] (300–390), Egyptian monk and hermit.  Also known as Pseudo-Macarius, Macarius-Symeon, Macarius the Elder, or St. Macarius the Great
*[[Pseudo-Macarius]] (4th/5th century), Syrian author
*[[Macarius of Jerusalem]], Bishop in 314–333
*[[Macarius of Alexandria]], also known as Macarius the Younger (died 395)
*[[Macarius Magnes]], 4th century Christian author of an apology "Apocriticus"
*[[Macarius I of Antioch]]: Patriarch of Antioch, deposed in 681
*[[Pope Macarius I of Alexandria]], ruled in 933–953
*[[Pope Macarius II of Alexandria]], ruled in 1102–1128
*[[Macarius (archbishop of Esztergom)]], ruled in 1142–1147
*[[Macarius II of Antioch]], Patriarch in 1164–1166
*[[Macarius of Unzha]] (1349–1444), founder of several Russian monasteries.
*[[Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow]] (1482–1563)
*[[Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im]], Melkite Patriarch of Antioch from 1647 to 1672
*Macarius, elder of [[Optina monastery]]
*[[Macarius of Corinth]] (1731-1805), Metropolitan bishop of Corinth
*[[Macarius IV Tawil]], Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1813–1815
*[[Macarius Bulgakov|Macarius I]], head of the Holy Synod in 1879–1882 in Russia, better known as his church's leading historian
*[[Macarius (Nevsky)]], head of the Holy Synod in 1912–1917 in Russia
*[[Makarios I of Cyprus|Makarios I]], archbishop of Cyprus from 1854 to 1865
*[[Pope Macarius III of Alexandria]], ruled in 1944–1945
*[[Makarios II of Cyprus|Makarios II]], archbishop of Cyprus from 1948 to 1950
*[[Makarios III]], archbishop (1950–1977) and president of Cyprus (1960–1977)
*[[Archbishop Makarios of Nairobi]], Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of Nairobi since 2001
*[[Archbishop Makarios of Australia]], Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia since 2019
*[[Macarius of Lviv]], Metropolitan of Lviv, bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== See also ==

* [[Makario (disambiguation)]]
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[[Category:Masculine given names]]