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Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, disciples of Apostle Andrew in Scythia (1st-2nd c.); Martyr Eusebius (298); Venerable Euthymius the Great (473); Martyrs Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius, and Basilides, at Nicomedia (303); Martyrs Thyrsus and Agnes (5th c.); Saint Leo the Great (Leo Marcellus), Confessor, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (474); Blessed Peter the Customs Inspector of Constantinople (Peter of Constantinople) (c. 527-565); Martyr Anna at Rome; Saint Fabian, Pope of Rome (250); Saint Sebastian, one of the most renowned of all the martyrs of Rome (c. 288); Saint Molagga (Laicin), disciple of St David in Wales, founded a monastery in Fulachmhin (Fermoy), Ireland (655); Saint Féchín of Fore, Abbot of Cong Abbey (665); Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681); Saint Maurus, monk and Abbot of Classe in Ravenna (Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe), later Bishop of Cesena (946); Saint Euthymius, Bishop of Pereyaslav (1149); Venerable Laurence the Recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th c.); Venerable Euthymius the Silent, Schemamonk, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.); Saint Neophytus of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (14th c.); Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Turnovo and Bulgaria (1402); Saint Euthymius of Syanzhema (Vologda) (1470); Venerable Euthymius of Arkhangelsk (1523); New-Martyr Zachariah of Patrai in Morea (1782); Venerable Theodore Kuzmich of Tomsk (Alexander I of Russia) (1864); New Hieromartyr Ioan Pettai, Estonian Presbyter-Martyr; New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromyslov, Archpriest, of Ryazan (1940); Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944); Other Commemorations: Repose of Elder Gerasim, founder of Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk (1676).
Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Synaxis of Saint John the Holy Glorious Prophet, Baptist, and Forerunner; Saint Julian the Deacon, of Aegina (391); Saint Crispin of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (467); Saint Valentine, an abbot who became a bishop in Rhaetia (470); Saint Brannock of Braunton, hieromonk (6th c.); Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664); Saint Cronan Beg, a Bishop of Aendrum in County Down in Ireland (7th c.); Saint Tillo of Solignac (702); Saint Kentigerna, Hermitess of Loch Lomond (734); Saint Emilian (Émilion), a monk at Saujon near Saintes, died as a hermit (767); Blessed Wittikund of Westphalia (804); Saint Aldric of Le Mans (Aldericus), Bishop of Le Mans (856); Saint Reinold, monk at the monastery of St Pantaleon in Cologne (960); Saint Anastasius of Sens, Archbishop of Sens (977); Saint Feodor I of Russia (Fyodor (Theodore) I Ivanovich), last Rurikid Tsar of Russia (1598); New-Martyr Athanasius of Attalia and Smyrna (1700) New Hieromartyr Alexander Skalsky, of Alma-Ata, Protopresbyter (1933); New Hieromartyr Paphnutius (Kostin), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1938); New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1939); Martyr John (1940); Martyr John (1942); Other Commemorations: The Miracle of Saint John the Baptist in Chios (1740).
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The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."
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