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22 June

22 commemorations of 22 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 July of the civil calendar.

Saints

  • Martyrs Zeno and his servant Zenas, of Philadelphia in Arabia (Amman) (304)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ζήνων καὶ Ζηνᾶς οἱ Μάρτυρεςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Galacteon and Pompeian, by drowning, in Petra, ConstantinopleΟἱ Ἅγιοι Γαλακτίων καὶ Πομπιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Juliana and her son Saturninus, by fire, in Petra, ConstantinopleΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανὴ καὶ Σατορνίνος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Hieromartyr Eusebius of Samosata, Bishop of Samosata (380)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐσέβιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Σαμοσάτωνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • St. Athanasius, Bishop of Chytri on Cyprus (4th century)pravoslavie.ru
  • 1,480 martyrs of Samaria (Sebasteia) in Palestine (c. 615)Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν Σεβαστείᾳ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Basil, Abbot of Patalaria Monastery (8th-9th centuries)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος Ἐπίσκοπος Πατελαρίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Gregory, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1834)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Διδάσκαλος Μητροπολίτης Οὐγγροβλαχίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Gennadius, Priest (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyrs Theodore Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky, Deacons (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Michael Stephanovskyholytrinityorthodox.com

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 Flavius Clemens, Flavius Clemens, brother of the Emperor Vespasian and uncle of Titus and Domitian, he was beheaded for the Orthodox Faith (c. 96)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Alban, protomartyr of Britain, in the Roman city of Verulamium (modern St Albans) (304)oca.org · patriarchia.ru · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint John I of Naples, Bishop of Naples in Italy (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Aaron of Aleth (Aihran, Eran), hermit, monk and abbot at a monastery on Cézembre, a small island near Aleth, opposite Saint-Malo in Brittany, France (c.552)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Consortia, founder of a convent in France endowed by King Clotaire after she miraculously healed his dying daughter; she was venerated at Cluny (c. 570)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint John IV of Naples, known as 'the Peacemaker', he was Bishop of Naples in Italy, where he is venerated as a patron-saint (835)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Rotrudis, kinswoman of Charlemagne, a saint whose relics were enshrined at Saint Bertin in Saint-Omer, France (c. 869)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland, and those with her (870)Ἡ Ἁγία Εὔα ἡ Ὁσιοπαρθενομάρτυρας ἡ Νέα καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῇ μαρτυρήσαντεςsynaxarion.gr · apostoliki-diakonia.gr

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Repose of Righteous Mary the Cave-digger, of White Mountain Monastery near Voronezh (1822)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Hieromonk Andrew, slain at Comana, Georgia (1993)pravoslavie.ru

The list is June 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.

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