23 March
33 commemorations of 23 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 April of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius (Bogolep), the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125)orthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νίκων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ ἑκατὸν ἐνενήκοντα μαθητές τουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δομέτιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Nicon the Great, abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νίκων καθηγούμενος τῆς Λαύρας τῶν Σπηλαίων τοῦ Κιέβουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐφραὶμ ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παχώμιος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Bassian, Archbishop of Rostov (1481)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασσιανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Θαυματουργός ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)oca.org
- New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λουκᾶς ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Ἁγιαννανίτηςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Elena (Bekhteeva), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Constantine Petrovich Snyatinovsky (1918)drevo-info.ru
- New Hieromartyr Macarius Feodorovich Kvitkin, Protopriest of Orenburg (1931)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Elias (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Vladimir (1938)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklin, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyr James (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Virgin-martyr Anastasia Stefanovna Bobkova, novice (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Virgin-martyr BarBara (Konkina), nun (1938)drevo-info.ru
- Martyr Alexis Simeonovich Skorobogatov (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Victorian, Frumentius, other Frumentius and Companions (484)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gwinear (Guigner) of Cornwall, born Fingar (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Icon of Our Lady of Antioch (580)drevo-info.ru
- Repose of Saint Helena Dragaš in monasticism Hypomone (1450)drevo-info.ru
- Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868)pravoslavie.ru
- Commemoration of execution of Vladimir Petrovich Gorizontov of Orenburg (1931)drevo-info.ru
The list is March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.