18 June
26 commemorations of 18 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 1 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius and Theodoulos at Tripoli in Phoenicia (70–79)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λεόντιος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Ὕπατος καὶ Θεόδουλος μαρτυρήσαντεςorthochristian.com · apostoliki-diakonia.gr · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Aetherus of Nicomedia (305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Αἰθέριος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Νικομηδείᾳsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- The Two Martyrs of CyprusΟἱ Ἅγιοι δύο Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Κύπρῳsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Marina the Virgin, of Bithynia (8th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Leontius the Shepherd, monkὉ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ Ποιμένας ὁ πέραν τοῦ ἄστεωςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable ErasmusὉ Ὅσιος Ἔρασμοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Peter of Koriša, aristocrat who gave away his possessions to become a monk at the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, later a hermit in the Šar... (1275)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ἐκ Σερβίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Leontius, canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ ἐν τοῖς Σπηλαίοις τοῦ Κιέβουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Leontius the Myrrh-gusher (Leontius the Hagiorite), of Argos and of Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos, clairvoyant (1605)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ Μυροβλήτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Morozkin), Archimandrite, of Spas-Ruzsky, Moscow (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Basil Smirnov, Alexander Krutitsky, Basil Krylov and Sergius Krotkov, Priests (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Ioannicius (Lipovac), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, executed by Communist partisans at the close of World War II (1945)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωαννίκιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Μητροπολίτης Μαυροβουνίου καὶ Παραθαλασσίαςsynaxarion.gr
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.
- Saints Mark and Marcellian, twin brothers and deacons who suffered in Rome under Maximian (c. 287)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Cyriacus and Paula of Málaga, two Christians, stoned to death in Málaga in Spain in the Diocletianic Persecution (305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κυριακὸς καὶ Παύλα οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Elpidios, in Gaul (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλπίδιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Amandus of Bordeaux, successor of St Delphinus as Bishop of Bordeaux in France, Confessor (c. 431)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀμάνδος Ἐπίσκοπος Μπορντὼ Γαλλίαςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alena of Brussels, martyr (c. 640)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Calogerus the Anchorite, a Greek who lived for thirty-five years as a hermit near Girgenti in Sicily after preaching Christ in the isles of Lipari (c. 486)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus, respectively a bishop, archdeacon and abbot in North Africa, driven out by Arian Vandals (5th century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Γρηγόριος, Δημήτριος καὶ Καλόγηρος οἱ Ἀναχωρητέςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fortunatus the Philosopher, a bishop driven from the north of Italy by the Lombards (c. 569)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φορτουνάτος ὁ Φιλόσοφοςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Osmanna (Osanna), a nun at the convent of Jouarre in France (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Guy of Baume, successor of St Berno at Baume Abbey in France, later a hermit near Fay-en-Bresse (c. 940)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.
- Synaxis of the Church of the Commander-in-Chief Michael the Archangel, near the Church of St. Julian in the Forum, ConstantinopleΣύναξις Ἀρχιστρατήγου Μιχαὴλ ἐν τῷ Φόρῳsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
- Bogolubov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1155)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Μπογκολιούμπσκϊυ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Meeting of the Piukhtitsa ("At the Source") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1894, 1946)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1997) of New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov (1934)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is June 18 (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.