22 October
30 commemorations of 22 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀβέρκιος ὁ Ἱσαπόστολος καὶ Θαυματουργὸςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople (2nd-3rd centuries)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλέξανδρος, Θεοδότη, Γλυκερία, Ἄννα καὶ Ἐλισάβετ οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 and c. 446)Οἱ Ἅγιοι 7 Παῖδες ἐν Ἐφέσῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λῶτsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐλάλιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saints Theodore and Paul, Abbots, of Rostov (1409)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory of Methoni, Bishop of Methoni in Greece and Ethnomartyr (1825)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἐθνομάρτυρας, Ἐπίσκοπος Μεθώνηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs (1937)
- Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich
- Herman (Polyansky) and Menas (Shelaev), Archimandrites
- Alexander Lebedev, Vladimir Sobolev, Basil Bogoyavlensky, and Alexander Andreyev, Priests
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Bogoslovsky and Nicholas Ushakov, Priests (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Gregory (Vorobiev), Abbot, of Koprino, Yaroslavl (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · 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.
- Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), Bishop of Verona in Italy (522)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Simplicius, a disciple of St Benedict and third Abbot of Montecassino (c. 570)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maroveus, a monk at Bobbio Abbey and founder of the monastery of Precipiano near Tortona in Italy (650)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nunctus (Noint), Abbot of a monastery near Mérida in the west of Spain, murdered by robbers and venerated as a martyr (668)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Moderan (Moderamnus, Moran), Bishop of Rennes, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Benedict of Massérac (Benoît de Macérac), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near Nantes in France (845)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Nunilo and Alodia, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca in Spain (851)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bertharius, a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Donatus of Fiesole, born in Ireland, he went on pilgrimage to Rome and became Bishop of Fiesole near Florence in Italy (874)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.
- The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (commemorating the deliverance from the Poles in 1612)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Icons of the Mother of God "Andronikos" and "Jacobstadt" (17th century)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Monk Joseph the Silent, of Kuban (1925)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Metropolitan Nestor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk (1962)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (1988)pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (2012) of New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod (1918)calendar.rop.ru
The list is October 22 (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.