22 August
34 commemorations of 22 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 September of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Dormitionorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions
- Zoticus, Theoprepius (Bogolep), Acindynus, Severian, Zeno, and others, who suffered under Maximian (4th century)
- Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 257)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anthusa of Seleucia (298), and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus (c. 253-259)Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀνθοῦσα καὶ σὺν αὐτῇsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and OropsusΟἱ Ἅγιοι Εἰρηναῖος, Ὢρ καὶ Ὀρόψις οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria (c. 362)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ariadne (515), daughter of Emperor Leo IἩ Ἁγία Ἀριάδνη ἡ Βασίλισσαsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (16th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Isaac I (Antimonov, the "Elder"), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1894)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Theodore (Smirnov), Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- John (Troyansky), Bishop of Veliki Luki (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Alexis (Orlov), Archbishop of Omsk (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Andrew (Ukhtomsky), Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hierotheus (Glazkov), Hieromonk, of Lyubim (Yaroslasvl) (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- John (Laba) and Hilarion (Tsurikov), Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan (Kazakhstan) (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk, slain by Nazis (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome (186)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess (2nd century)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander (236)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France (260)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Fabrician and Philibert, martyrs in Toledo, SpainRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Martial, Saturninus, Epictetus, Maprilis, Felix and Companions, martyrs with St. Aurea of Ostia, honoured in Ostia, Italy (c. 300)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian (c. 306)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in ItalyRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (c. 688)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria (c. 720)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Andrew of Tuscany (c. 880)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England (9th century)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 Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τῷ Πυρσῷ τῆς Εὐρυτανίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Georgian Icon (Iveron Icon, Iverskaya) of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery of St. Alexis of Moscow (1650)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 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.