23 June
29 commemorations of 23 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 6 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyr Agrippina of Rome and her companions Paula, Bassa, and Agathonica (253-259)Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀγριππίνα ἡ Μάρτυςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrian the Deacon, and Athanasius the Reader, at Salamis on Cyprus (302 or 306)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀριστοκλῆς, Δημητριανὸς καὶ Ἀθανάσιος οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐν Κύπρῳ ἀθλήσαντεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Eustochius, Gaius, Proba, Lollia, and Urban, of Ancyra (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστόχιος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Hesychios the Sinaite, hegumen of Saint Catherine's Monastery (7th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡσύχιος τῆς Βάτουsynaxarion.gr · apostoliki-diakonia.gr
- Venerable Barbaros the Myrrhgusher, "the Pentapolitis" (c. 820-829)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βάρβαρος ὁ Μυροβλήτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Nicetas of Thebes in Boetia, and his disciples Theodore, Gregory, and Daniel (1079)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ἐκ Θηβῶνsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Dionysius of Polotsk (1182)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Artemius of Verkola (1545)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρτέμιος ἐν Βέρκολᾳ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerables Joseph, founder (1612), Anthony, and Ioannicius, Abbots of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (17th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Kallinikos of Veroia (1821)Ὁ Ἅγιος Καλλίνικος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Βεροίαςsynaxarion.gr
- New Hieromartyrs and martyrs of Crete (1821)
- Gerasimos of Crete
- Neophytos of Knossos
- Ioakeim of Hersonissos
- Hierotheos of Lambis
- Zacharias of Sitia
- Ioakeim of Petra
- Gerasimos of Rethymnos
- Kallinikos of Kydonia
- Melchisedek of Kissamos
- Kallinikos of Diapolis
- and those with them, clerics and laymen, in 1821 and 1822
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Miropolsky, Alexis Vvedensky, and Peter Smorodintsev, Priests (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Mitrophan (Krasnopolsky), Archbishop of Astrakhan (1919)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Leontius (von Vimpfen), Bishop of Enotaeva, and those with him (1919)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Maxim (Zhizhilenko), Bishop of Serpukhov (1931)holytrinityorthodox.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 Felix of Sutri, a priest of Sutri in Lazio in Italy, scourged to death under Valerian and Gallienus (257)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint John, a priest in Rome, beheaded under Julian the Apostate (362)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Moeliai (Moelray), born in Ireland and baptised by St Patrick, he became Abbot of Nendrum Monastery (c. 493)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey, Etheldred, Æthelthryth), Queen and Abbess, foundress of Ely Monastery, England (679)Ἡ Ὁσία Ἐθελδρέδα ἡ βασίλισσαsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hidulf, Count of Hainault in Belgium, he became a monk at Lobbes Abbey which he had helped to found, Benedictine abbot (c. 707)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Jacob of Toul, Bishop of Toul (769)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Walhere, a priest in Belgium murdered for his righteousness and venerated as a martyrorthodoxengland.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 Saints of Vladimir (1982)Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἅπαντες Μάρτυρες ἐν Βλαδιμὶρ τῆς Ρωσίαςpravenc.ru · synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1480)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Βλαδιμήρου ἐν Κιέβῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos
- "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1524)
- "Zaonikiev" (1588)
- "Vratarnitsa"(1894)
- Translation of the relics of Venerable Michael of Klopsk, Fool-for-Christ of Klopsk Monastery, Novgorod (1482)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Second translation of the relics (1714) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk Zosimas of Solovki (1855)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Ivan M. Kontzevitch, spiritual writer (1965)pravoslavie.ru
The list is June 23 (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.