20 July
26 commemorations of 20 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 2 August of the civil calendar.
In the map: The Prophet ElijahSt. Maria of Paris
Saints
- Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate (9th century BC)Ὁ Προφήτης Ἠλίαςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
- Saint Flavianus II of Antioch, Patriarch and Confessor (518)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Elias I of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Confessor (518)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Martyr Salome of Jerusalem and Kartli, who suffered under the Persians (13th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Abramius of Galich, near Chukhloma Lake, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1375)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Elias (Chavchavadze) the Righteous of Georgia (1907)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyrs Lydia, with soldiers Alexei and Cyril, near Ufa (1928)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs at Voronezh (1930)
- Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov)
- Hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cosmas (Vyaznikov)
- Priests John Steblin-Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and George Nikitin
- Martyrs Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Znamensky, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Theodore Abrosimov (1941)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyrs of Paris
- Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, of Ugine, France (1934)
- Elias Fondaminsky (1942)
- Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944)
- George Skobtsov (1944); and
- Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945)
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 Rheticus (Rheticius, Rhetice), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aurelius of Carthage, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (429)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severa of St Gemma, Abbess of St Gemma (later Sainte-Sevère) in Villeneuve near Bourges, the sister of St Modoald, Bishop of Trier (c. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wulmar of Boulogne (Ulmar, Ulmer, Vilmarus, Volmar), founder of the monastery of Samer near Boulogne, later called Saint-Vulmaire (689)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severa of Oehren, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany (c. 750)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ansegisus, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France at the age of eighteen, he later restored several monasteries (c. 833)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Paul the Deacon of Córdoba (851)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ethelwida (Ealhswith, Elswith), widow of King Alfred the Great (902)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Icon of the Mother of God "Chukhloma" from Galich (Galich-Chukhlomsk - "Tenderness") (1350)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Icon of the Mother of God "Orshansk" (1631)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen of the Monastery of St Simeon Stylites in Brest (1648)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Priest Valentine Amphiteatrov of Moscow (1908)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-nun Sarah of Borodino (1908)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 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.