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25 September

30 commemorations of 25 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 8 October of the civil calendar.

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Saints

  • Monk-martyr Paphnutius and 546 companions, in Egypt (c. 303)Ὁ Ἅγιος Παφνούτιος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας καὶ ἀναχωρητὴς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶ 546 μαρτυρήσαντεςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · saint.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Paul and Tatta and their children Sabinian, Maximos, Rufus, and Eugene, of DamascusΟἱ Ἅγιοι Παῦλος, Ταττὴ καὶ τὰ παιδιά τουςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria, nun, and her father Venerable Paphnutius, monk (5th century)Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐφροσύνηsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Theophilos the Confessor, Archbishop of EphesusὉ Ὅσιος Θεόφιλος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἐφέσουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
  • Saint Arsen the Great, Catholicos of Georgia (887)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

New martyrs and confessors

  • Saint Nicholas Rozov the Confessor, Priest (1941)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.

  • Saints Aurelia and Neomisia, at Anagni, peacefullyorthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
  • Saint Herculanus, a soldier martyred in Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Firminus of Amiens, First Bishop of Amiens (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Caian of Tregaian (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Principius, the elder brother of St Remigius of Rheims, he became Bishop of Soissons in France (c. 505)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Solemnis (Soleine, Solen), Bishop of Chartres (511)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Lupus of Lyon, Archbishop of Lyon (542)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Cadoc, Abbot, of Llancarfan (580)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Anacharius (Aunacharius, Aunachaire, Aunaire), Bishop of Auxerre and Confessor (604)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Finbarr of Cork (Barrocus, Barry), first Bishop of Cork (c. 633)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Ermenfridus, a monk at Luxeuil Abbey in France, who later founded the monastery of Cusance (c. 670)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Mewrog, a saint in Walesorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Fymbert, a bishop in the west of Scotland (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ceolfrith (Ceolfrid, Geoffrey), Abbot, of Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery (716)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Egelred, a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, martyred with his abbot and many others by the heathen Danes (c. 869)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.

  • Commemoration of the earthquake in Constantinople in 447, when a boy was lifted up to heaven and heard the "Trisagion"Μνήμη τοῦ μεγάλου σεισμοῦsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • First translation of the relics (1595) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of philosopher Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov, cofounder of the Slavophile movement (1860)pravoslavie.ru
  • Uncovering of the relics of hieromartyrs Alexander Smirnov and Theodore Remizov, Presbyters (1985)calendar.rop.ru

The list is September 25 (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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