20 April
23 commemorations of 20 April in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 May of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Apostle Zacchaeus of the Seventy, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, he who was called down from the Sycamore tree by Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζακχαῖος ὁ Ἀπόστολοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Acindinus, Antoninus, Victor, Zenon, Zoticus, Theonas, Caesareus, Severian and Christophoros (284-305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀκίνδυνος, Ἀντωνίνος, Βίκτωρ, Ζήνωνος, Ζωτικός, Θεωνᾶς, Καισάριος, Σεβηριανὸς καὶ Χριστόφορος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Theodore Trichinas ("the Hair-Shirt Wearer"), hermit near Constantinople (400)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Τριχινᾶςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Theotimus, Bishop of Tomis in Moesia (Lesser Scythia) (407)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεότιμος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρουμανίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Gregory (593) and Anastasius I (599), Patriarchs of AntiochὉ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Σιναΐτης Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείαςmospat.ru · synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Anastasius II, Patriarch of Antioch (609)ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Anastasius Sinaita, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai (c. 700)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ioannis the Palaiolavritis ("of the Old Lavra"), at St. Chariton's Monastery, in the Judean DesertὉ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Παλαιολαυρίτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Saints Athanasius (1380) and Ioasaph (1422) of Meteora, AbbotsὉ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Μετεωρίτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Alexander of Oshevensk, founder of Oshevensk Monastery, Arkhangelsk (1479)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξανδρος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Child-Martyr Gabriel of Zabludov (Gabriel of Slutsk) (1690)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · roca.org
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hiero-Confessor Theodosius (Ganitsky), Bishop of Kolomna (1937)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.
- Martyrs Sulpicius and Servilian, martyrs in Rome who were beheaded under Trajan (c. 117)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Marcellinus of Embrun, Vincent and Domninus, born in North Africa, they went to France and preached in the Dauphiné (c. 374)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Marcian of Auxerre, a monk at the Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre (c. 470)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cædwalla of Wessex (Cadwalla), King of the West Saxons (689)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gundebert (Gumbert), monk-martyr (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Harduin, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France (749), then a hermit who copied writings of the Fathers (811)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc, a monk at Saint Savin (c. 930)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.
- "Cyprus" (392) and "Keepiazh" (Kipyazha) Icons of the Mother of Godholytrinityorthodox.com
- Translation of the relics (1991) of St. Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ochrid and Zhicha (1956) from America to SerbiaΜετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νικολάου Ἐπισκόπου Ἀχρίδος καὶ Ζίτσηςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk Ignatius of St. Nicephorus Monastery in Olonets (1852)pravoslavie.ru
- Glorification (2014) of New Confessor Smaragda (Onishchenko), Abbess of Nezhinsk , Ukraine (1945)drevo-info.ru
The list is April 20 (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.