15 September
39 commemorations of 15 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 28 September of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Crossorthochristian.com · calendar.rop.ru · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, and Asclepiodota, of Adrianopolis (305-311)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Two Virgin-Martyrs, by the swordΟἱ Ἁγίες Δύο Κόρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea (361)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πορφύριος ὁ μίμοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth and those with him (372)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Γότθοςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Joseph, Abbot of Alaverdi Monastery in Georgia (570)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter of Asia Minor, Wonderworker (10th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Φιλόθεος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος καὶ θαυματουργὸςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Sabinus, a bishop who became a monasticὉ Ὅσιος Σαβίνοςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Meletios, founder of the Monastery of SergiusὉ Ὅσιος Μελέτιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Nicetas, Bishop of Chytri, near Kythrea, in CyprusὉ Ὅσιος Νικήτας Ἐπίσκοπος Χυτρῶν Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (1429)Ὁ Ἅγιος Συμεὼν Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκηςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicetas, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and founder of the Theophany Monastery in Kostroma (15th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Bessarion I (1490-1499) and Bessarion II (1527-1540), Metropolitans of LarissaὉ Ἅγιος Βησσαρίων Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Λαρίσηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Joseph the New of Partoёs, Metropolitan of Timișoara, Romania (1656)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa (c. 1740)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος κτήτορας τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίας Τριάδος Σουρβίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr John of Crete, at New Ephesus (1811)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Ilinsky, Priest (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Virgin-martyr Eudokia Tkachenko (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Andrew Kovalev, Gregory Konokotin, Gregory Troitsky, and John Yakovlev, Priests (1921)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable New Hiero-confessor Ignatius (Biryukov), Archimandrite, of the Aleksievo-Akatov Monastery in Voronezh (1932)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ignatenko, Priest (1935)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs John Borozdin, Jacob Leonovich, Peter Petrikov, and Nicholas Skvortsov, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tsvetkov, Deacon (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyrs Mary Rykov and Ludmila Petrov (1937)calendar.rop.ru · 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 Nicomedes, by tradition he was a priest martyred in Rome, perhaps under Domitian (c. 90)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Valerian, a companion of St Pothinus (Photinus) of Lyon in France (178)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alpinus (Aubin, Alpin), Bishop of Lyon (c. 390)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mamilian of Palermo, Bishop of Palermo in Sicily (460)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aprus (Aper, Apre, Epvre, Evre), Bishop of Toul (507)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leobinus (Lubin), Abbot of Brou, then Bishop of Chartres (c. 556)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hernin (Hernan), a hermit in Brittany at a place called Loc-Harn after him (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Merinus (Merin, Merryn, Meadhran), abbot of Paisley Abbey (c. 620)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aichardus (Aicard, Achard), Abbot of St Benedict's at Quinçay near Poitiers, then Abbot of Jumièges (c. 687)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ritbert, monk and abbot of a small monastery in Varennes in France (c. 690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ribert, Monk and Abbot of Saint-Valèry-sur-Somme in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Emilas and Jeremiah, two young men, the former of whom was a deacon, imprisoned and beheaded in Cordoba in Spain under the Caliph Abderrahman (852)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.
- Uncovering of the relics of St. Acacius the Confessor, bishop of Melitene in Pisidia (251)Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἀκακίου ἐπισκόπου Μελιτινῆςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Mother of God of Novonikita, carried by St Nicetas the Goth (372)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Uncovering of the relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (415)Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Πρωτομάρτυρα Στεφάνουsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is September 15 (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.