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23 September

19 commemorations of 23 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 6 October of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. John the Forerunner (the Baptist)

Feasts

Saints

  • Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain, disciples of the Apostles (109)Οἱ Ὁσίες Ξανθίππη καὶ Πολυξένηorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · Roman Martyrology · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria (308)Ἡ Ἁγία Ραΐς ἡ παρθένοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Andrew and John, and his sons Peter and Antoninus, of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • New Martyr Nicholas the Grocer ("O Pantopolis"), at Constantinople (1672)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ παντοπώλης ἐκ Καρπενησιουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr John of Konitsa, Epirus, by beheading (1814)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἐκ Μουσουλμάνωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory (Kalamaras), Metropolitan of Argos and Nauplion, Ethnomartyr (1821)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἐθνοϊερομάρτυρας, Μητροπολίτης Ἄργουςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Pankratovich, Priest (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Arsenius, Archimandrite (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.

  • Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 79)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (c. 563)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Constantius, sacristan of the ancient church of St Stephen in Ancona in Italy (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, biographer of Saint Columba (704)Ὁ Ἅγιος Adamnan (Σκωτσέζος)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Cissa of Crowland, a disciple of St Guthlac at Crowland in England (early 8th 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.

  • Icon of the Mother of God of Slovenka (Solvenskaya) (1635)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Hieroschemamonk Jerome of Solovki (1847)pravoslavie.ru
  • Glorification (1977) of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Theotokos "Hawaiian" (2007)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxhawaii.org

The list is September 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.

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