20 June
29 commemorations of 20 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 July of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Nicholas Cabasilas
Saints
- Martyrs Paul, Cyriacus, Paula, Felicilana, Thomas, Felix, Martyrius, Vitaly, Crispinus, and Emilius, in Tomis, Moesia (290)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyrs Aristocleus, priest, the deacon Demetrian, and the reader Athanasius, at Salamis on Cyprus (c. 306)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Methodius of Olympus in Lycia, Bishop of Patara (312)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μεθόδιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ὀλύμπουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Studius, founder of the Studion Monastery (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nahum of Ochrid, Enlightener of the Bulgarians (910)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ναούμsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Venerable Two Ascetic Hermits, reposed in peace in the desertΟἱ Ὅσιοι δύο ἐρημίτες ἀσκητέςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · apostoliki-diakonia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Minas, Bishop of Polotsk (1116)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μηνᾶς Ἐπίσκοπος Πολὸκ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Right-believing Prince Gleb Andreyevich of Vladimir (1175)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γκλὲμπ πρίγκιπας τοῦ Βλαδιμήρsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Callistus I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κάλλιστος Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nicholas Kabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer, spiritual child of St. Gregory Sinaitis (1392 or 1397)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικόλαος Καβάσιλαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable new monk-martyr Zacharias of Arta, Greece (1782)ecclesia.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Stanislav Nasadil, victim of the Nazi Croatia concentration camp at Gospić (1941)orthochristian.com · katedrala.info
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 Novatus, son of Pudens, senator of Rome, and brother of Sts Praxedes and Pudentiana (c. 151)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alban, Protomartyr of Britain (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leucius the Confessor, Bishop of Brindisi (Brentisiopolis) (5th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Silverius, Pope of Rome (537)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σιλβέριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμηςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Govan (Goven, Cofen), hermit who lived in a fissure on the side of coastal cliff near Bosherston, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales (586)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Florentina (Florence), Abbess, of Spain (c. 636)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Goban (Gobain), an Irish Benedictine monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England (670)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bain (Bainus, Bagnus), a monk at Fontenelle in France, he became Bishop of Thérouanne (c. 710)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Helen (Heliada), Abbess of the convent of Oehren in Trier in Germany (c. 750)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg, Abbot of Weissenburg, and in 968 the first Archbishop of Magdeburg, with jurisdiction over the western Slavs or Sorbs (981)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 (1st-2nd century) of Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, Scythian disciples of Apostle Andrew, to Alushta in CrimeaΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰννᾶς, Πιννᾶς καὶ Ριμμᾶς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics and garments (c. 960) of Apostles Luke, Andrew, and Thomas, Prophet Elisha, and Martyr Lazarus to the Church of the Holy Apostles...Κατάθεσις ἱερῶν λειψάνων τῶν Ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων Ἀνδρέου, Θωμᾶ καὶ Λουκᾶ, τοῦ Μάρτυρος Λαζάρου καὶ τοῦ Προφήτου Ἐλισαίουsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1001) of Edward the Martyr, King of England (978)
- Translation of the relics of St. Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan (1630)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Γουρία Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Καζάνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Finding of the relics (1959) of New Hieromartyr Raphael, Hieromonk, of Mytilene (1463)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Odigitria" ("Directress"), at the Xenophontos monastery on Mt Athosoca.org · saint.gr
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Modensk-Kosninsk"Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς «Μοντένᾳ» ἐν Ρωσίαsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
The list is June 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.