23 August
24 commemorations of 23 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 September of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Irenaeus of Lyon (c. 130-202)
Feasts
- Apodosis of the DormitionἈπόδοση ἑορτῆς κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon ()Ὁ Ἅγιος Πόθεινος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Λουγδούνουsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (202)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εἰρηναῖος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Λουγδούνουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εἰρηναῖος ὁ Μάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Σιρμίουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace ()Οἱ Ἅγιοι 38 Μάρτυρες ποὺ μαρτύρησαν στὴ Θρᾴκηsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Lupus of Novae (306), slave of St. Demetrius of ThessalonikiὉ Ἅγιος Λοῦππος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Eutychius (540) and Florentius (547) of Nursiaocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705)Ὁ Ὅσιος Καλλίνικοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis (10th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Σάρδηςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in EuboeaὉ Ὅσιος Νικόλαος ὁ Σικελιώτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent (in the Heraklio Prefecture), the newly-revealed (1788)Ὁ Ὅσιος Χαράλαμπος ὁ Νεοφανὴςsynaxarion.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests (1937)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.
- Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions ()orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyon in France - eight children are included in their number (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen ()holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victor of Vita (Victor Vitensis), born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica ()Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Éogan of Ardstraw ()orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Flavian (Flavinian, Flavius) of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France (731)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions (870)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.
- Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece ()ecclesia.gr
- Mykhaylivska Icon of the Most Holy Theotokosorthodox.cn
- Repose of Abbot Ioannicius (Moroi) of Sihastria, Romania (1944)pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 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.