20 September
22 commemorations of 20 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 October of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Crossocafs.oca.org
Saints
- Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Martyr Theopistes, and their sons Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστάθιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀρτεμίδωρος καὶ Θαλὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr John the Confessor, of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (295 or 310)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Αἰγύπτιος καὶ οἱ 40 σὺν αὐτῷ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the ConfessorΟἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος, Εὐπρέπιος, Ἀναστάσιος, Θεόδωρος καὶ Ἀναστάσιος (ἄλλος) οἱ Ὁμολογητέςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyrs Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus and Andrew the Presbyter, Confessors of the Holy Icons, under Leo III the Isaurian (8th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ὑπάτιος καὶ Ἀνδρέας οἱ Ὁμολογητέςsynaxarion.gr · abbamoses.com · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable John the Godbearer, of Crete, monk (1031)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεοφόρος ἀπὸ τὴν Κρήτηsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Meletius of Cyprus, BishopὉ Ὅσιος Μελέτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1197)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστάθιος ὁ Κατάφλωρος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκηςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Holy Martyrs Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov, and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov, Wonderworkers (1245)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1285)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Right-believing Prince John of Putyvl, Ukraine (14th century)pravoslavie.ru
- New Monk-martyr Hilarion the Cretan, of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1804)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰλαρίων ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ νέος ἀπὸ τὴν Κρήτηsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk (1925)holytrinityorthodox.com · sinod.ruschurchabroad.org
- New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Smelnitsky and Alexander Tetiuyev, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · 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 Candida, a virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Glycerius, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (438)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Vincent Madelgarius, Benedictine monk (677)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eusebia of Saint-Cyr, Benedictine Abbess of a convent in Marseilles in France, martyred with some forty nuns by the Saracens at Saint-Cyr (c. 731)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 the icon of Panagia Voulkaniotissa, in Messinia (1755)saint.gr
- Synaxis of the Saints of Bryanskcalendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is September 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.