10 October
25 commemorations of 10 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 23 October of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Ambrose of Optina
Saints
- Saint Pinytus (Gr. Πινυτός), Bishop of Knossos in Crete (c. 180)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theotecnus of Antioch (3rd-4th century)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia and 200 martyrs with them, at Nicomedia (303-311)Οἱ Ἅγιοι 200 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maharsapor (or Sapor; died 421), an early Persian martyr
- Saint Bassian of Constantinople (c. 458)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασιανόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerables Theophilus the Confessor and Longinus the Stylite (716)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόφιλος ὁ Ὁμολογητήςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Amphilochius, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyrdom of the 26 Martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos by the Latins (1284)
- Abbot Thomas, Monks Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah, Simon, Hilarion, Job, James, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas, Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioannicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, and Parthenius, and four laymen
- Saint Dionysios the Philosopher (1611)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος ὁ Σκυλόσοφοςsynaxarion.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com · saint.gr
- Blessed Andrew of Totma in Vologda, Fool-for-Christ (1673)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ἐκ Τότμα (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Innocent, Bishop of Penza (1819)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ambrose of Optina, Elder of Optina Monastery (1891)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀμβρόσιος τῆς Ὄπτινα (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyevsky), Archbishop of Volokolamsk (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 of the Theban Legion, along the Rhine (c. 287)
- Saints Cassius and Florentius, at Bonn
- Saints Gereon and companions, at Cologne
- Saints Victor and companions, at Xanten (Germany)
- Saint Clarus of Nantes (Clair), Bishop of Nantes in France (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cerbonius, Bishop of Verona in Italy (c. 400)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Patrician, a bishop in Scotland who was driven out by heathen and spent the remainder of his life on the Isle of Man (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cerbonius, Bishop of Populonia in Tuscany, during the Barbarian invasions (c. 580)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tanca, a young girl near Troyes in France who was martyred defending her virginity (c. 637)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paulinus of York, Archbishop of York (644)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Aldericus (Aldric, Audri), Archbishop of Sens (841)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paulinus of Capua, Bishop of Capua (843)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fulk of Fontenelle, twenty-first Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey in France (845)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 Seven Saints of Volhynia
- Saints Stephen (1094) and Amphilochius (1122), Bishops of Vladimir in Volhynia
- Saint Yaropolk-Peter, Prince of Vladimir in Volhynia (1086)
- St. Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves, Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia (1483)
- St. Juliana, Princess of Olshansk (c. 1540)
- St. Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)
- Hieromartyr Macarius of Kanev, Archimandrite, of Obruch and Pinsk (1678)
- Zographou Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Akathistoca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 10 (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.