What is the tradition of changing names upon receiving the Mystery of Holy Ordination in the East?

[Harpazo]

I know there isn’t really one in the West, at least for diocesan priests. Yet, I was still wondering if there is a tradition of doing this in the East amongst the diocesan clergy. Should I become a priest in the Maronite Church (insha’ allah), I would like to change my name and these are a few of the names I like. Let me know what you all think:

1. 
   *]Yaqoub Elias
   *]Yaqoub Athanasios
   *]Elias Maroun
   *]Efrem Maroun
   
   Anyways, do diocesan clergy in the East have such a tradition, or is it just once and a while occurences where these things happen? And if they do it, what procedure do they have to go through?
   
   Al-Masih Qam!
   Andrew

 

[ASimpleSinner]

I know there isn’t really one in the West, at least for diocesan priests. Yet, I was still wondering if there is a tradition of doing this in the East amongst the diocesan clergy. Should I become a priest in the Maronite Church (insha’ allah), I would like to change my name and these are a few of the names I like. Let me know what you all think:

1. 
   *]Yaqoub Elias
   *]Yaqoub Athanasios
   *]Elias Maroun
   *]Efrem Maroun
   
   Anyways, do diocesan clergy in the East have such a tradition, or is it just once and a while occurences where these things happen? And if they do it, what procedure do they have to go through?
   
   Al-Masih Qam!
   Andrew

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   Andrew you would do well to speak with your Maronite bishop.
   
   The Antiochians have a tradition of secular clergy taking new presbyteral names… I am not familir with it elsewhere.
   
   Are you in seminary now?

 

[stbruno]

It’s not only in the Eastern tradition. We have a man who was ordained into the Passionist Missionaries and he changed his first name, kept his last. Another priest who is a Claretian missionary did the same thing…and they are of the Roman Rite.

 

[Harpazo]

Andrew you would do well to speak with your Maronite bishop.

The Antiochians have a tradition of secular clergy taking new presbyteral names… I am not familir with it elsewhere.

Are you in seminary now?

I’m not in the Seminary yet. My pastor wants me to wait 2 years until I get a basic 2 year degree at a college.

Al-Masih Qam!
Andrew

 

[Formosus]

It’s not only in the Eastern tradition. We have a man who was ordained into the Passionist Missionaries and he changed his first name, kept his last. Another priest who is a Claretian missionary did the same thing…and they are of the Roman Rite.

That is more likely connected to him being a religious and not him being a priest. It is the tradition in the west for religious to change names, though a lot do not any more.