22 April
21 commemorations of 22 April in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 May of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Holy Apostle Nathaniel of the Twelve (Bartholomew) (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ναθαναὴλ ὁ Ἀπόστολοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Apostles Apelles, Luke (not the Evangelist), and Clement, of the Seventy (1st century)pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Leonides of Alexandria, Bishop (202)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Nearchus, by fire (3rd century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νέαρχος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia (613)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Συκεώτηςmospat.ru · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Vitalis of Gaza, monk of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza (609-620)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Ananias of Malles, first monk, renovator and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Exakousti in the village of Malles in Ierapetra, Crete (1907)johnsanidopoulos.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ekaterina (Malkov-Panina), fool-for-Christ, of the Holy Dormition Pukhtitsa Convent in Estonia (1968)orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Eustathius Malahovsky, Priest (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (Platon Jovanovic), Bishop of Banja Luka (1941)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Demetrius Vlasenkov (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Confessor Athanasius Andreyevich Saiko of Orel, Fool-for-Christ (1967)orthochristian.com · new.patriarchia.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.
- Hieromartyr Soter, Pope of Rome (c. 174)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Martyrs Epipodius of Lyons, by beheading (c. 177)patriarchia.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gaius, born in Dalmatia, became Pope of Rome, martyred with members of his family (296)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γάιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμηςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leo of Sens, Bishop of Sens in France for twenty-three years (541)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- The Two Brothers Arwald, sons of Arwald, the last Jutish King of the Isle of Wight, put to death by soldiers of King Ceadwalla, then a pagan, on the day... (686)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Opportuna of Montreuil, sister of St Chrodegang, Bishop of Séez, Abbess at the convent of Monteuil (c. 770)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Senorina, a Galician abbess who served as the abbess of the Benedictine convent of St John of Venaria (Vieyra) (982)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.
- Translation of the relics (1834) of St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov (1138)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is April 22 (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.