23 October
28 commemorations of 23 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 November of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. James, the Brother of the Lord
Saints
- Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 63)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Ἀπόστολος καὶ Ἀδελφόθεοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (346)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πετρώνιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (877-878)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰγνάτιοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Macarius the Roman, of MesopotamiaὉ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ὁ Ρωμαῖοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, ConstantinopleὉ Ὅσιος Νικηφόροςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Elisha (Elisæus) of Lauryshava Monastery in Belarus, Igumen (1250)pravenc.ru · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Eusebius (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of Shadrinsk (1937)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ambartsumov, Archpriest, of Moscow (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Agafonnikov, Alexander Soloviev, Nicholas Archangelsky, Emilian Goncharov and Sozon Reshetilov, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Euphrosyne Timofeeva (1942)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Hieromartyr Constantin Sârbu, Priest (1975)basilica.ro · orthochristian.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 Servandus and Germanus, sons of St Marcellus of Léon in Spain, martyred in Cadiz while on their way to Tangiers under arrest (c. 305)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amon of Toul, Second Bishop of Toul in France, the successor of St Mansuetus (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Verus, third Bishop of Salerno in Italy (4th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severin of Cologne, third known Bishop of Cologne and a prominent opponent of Arianism (c. 403)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severinus of Bordeaux (Seurin), Bishop of Bordeaux in France (c. 420)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clether (Cleer, Clydog, Scledog, Clitanus or Cleodius), one of the twenty-four children of Saint Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog (c. 520)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher, martyred at Pavia in Italy (524)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint John of Syracuse (Ioannes), Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily from 595 (c. 609)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen (639)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Benedict of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who fled to Gaul and built a hermitage near Poitiers (c.654)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Syra, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey, from where she was asked by Bishop Ragnebaud to become Abbess of Châlons-sur-Marne (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leothadius (Léothade), Abbot of Moissac Abbey in the south of France, later he became Bishop of Auch (718)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Oda of Amay, Belgium (Ode)], foundress of churches (723)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Domitius, hermit near Amiens in France (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Elfleda (Aelflead), a princess who lived as an anchoress in Glastonbury Abbey; she was revered by St Dunstan (c. 936)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ethelfleda (Elfleda), Abbess of Romsey Abbey (c. 970)holytrinityorthodox.com · 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.
- Translation of the relics (1544) of Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod (1540)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἰακώβου Βοροβίας τοῦ Θαυματουργοῦ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 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.