Fidelis

This article covers the male first name. For the Florida CDP, see Fidelis (Florida) .

Fidelis is a male name . It is used as a religious name and pseudonym . Occasionally it also appears as a family name . It comes from Latin and means "of loyalty". Name day is April 24th after the death of Fidelis von Sigmaringen .

variants

• Fidel (Spanish, also German)
• Fidèle (French)
• Fedele (Italian)

First name

• Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (1765–1815), German physician
• Johannes Fidelis Battaglia (1829–1913), Bishop of Chur 1888–1908
• Fidelis Bentele (1905–1987), German sculptor
• Fidelis Bentele (painter) (1830–1901), German animal, history and church painter
• Fidelis Böhler (1887–1954), German vehicle designer, among others at Hanomag
• Fidelis Butsch (1805–1879), German bookseller and bibliophilia expert
• Fidelis Dehm (1825–1883) was a Franciscan minister and Catholic priest, 1877–1880 Apostolic Visitator in Romania
• Fidelis Graf (1827–1901), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
• Heinrich Fidelis Müller (1837–1905), German priest and composer
• Fidelis Rakotonarivo SJ (* 1956), Malagasy Jesuit and Bishop of Ambositra in Madagascar
• Fidelis Ruppert OSB (* 1938), Benedictine monk and former abbot of the Münsterschwarzach am Main abbey in Lower Franconia
• José Maria Fidélis dos Santos (1944–2012), Brazilian national soccer player (Bangu AC, CR Vasco da Gama)
• Fidelis Scheu (1780-1830), German-Bohemian doctor and balneologist
• Fidelis Schönlaub (1805–1883), sculptor
• Fidelis von Stotzingen OSB (1871–1947), German Roman Catholic clergyman and Benedictine
• Fidelis White OSFr. (1882–1923), German Franciscan and mystic

family name

• Chinenye Fidelis (* 1993), Nigerian weightlifter

pseudonym

Fidelis is used as a pseudonym by, among others

• Felix Boenheim (1890–1960), a German doctor, politician, historian and author
• Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927), a Canadian social reformer, journalist and writer
• Hermann Popert (1871–1932), a German lawyer, judge, and writer

Order name

Well-known bearer of the religious name Fidelis is

• Markus Roy or Rey (1578–1622), a philosopher and lawyer born in Sigmaringen who, after joining the Capuchin order, assumed the religious name Fidelis and died as a counter-Reformation missionary in Switzerland; in 1746 he was canonized as a martyr by the Catholic Church as Fidelis von Sigmaringen .

See also

• Saint Fidelis Monastery
• St. Fidelis Church
• Semper fidelis
• Fidel (first name)
• Fidelis (Florida) , location in the US state of Florida