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Today's feastsDecember 30 2025:
Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ; Apostle Timon the Deacon, of the Seventy (1st c.); Virgin-Martyr Anysia of Thessaloniki (298); Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (Philetairus), and with him six soldiers and one count (311); Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (ca. 340) (see also December 31 - Greek); Saint Anysios of Thessaloniki, Bishop of Thessaloniki (384-407) (see also December 31 - Slavonic); Martyrs Magistrianus, Paulinus, Umbrius, Verus, Severus, Callistratus, Florentius, Arianus, Anthimus, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson, Studius, and Thespesius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361-363); Venerable Theodora of Caesarea in Cappadocia (755); Venerable Theodora of Constantinople, Nun (940); Venerable Leo (Leonidus) the Archimandrite; Saint Liberius of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy, venerated as one of the founders of that diocese (ca.200); Martyrs Sabinus of Spoleto, Exuperantius, Marcellus, Venustian and Companions (303); Saint Egwin of Evesham, Bishop of Worcester (717); Saint Eugene of Milan, Bishop and Confessor; Saint Sebastian, a monk who became Archbishop of Esztergom (1002) and Primate of Hungary in the time of St Stephen (1036); Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468); Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563); New Venerable Monk-martyr Gideon of Karakalou Monastery on Mount Athos, at Turnovo (1818); New Hieromartyr Priest Sergius Florinsky of Rakvere, Estonia (1918); Virgin-martyr Mary Danilova, New-Martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1946); Other Commemorations: Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1540).
Holy Prophet Daniel (600 BC) and the Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias, and Misael; Monk-martyrs Patermuthius and Coprius, and Martyr Alexander the Soldier, of Egypt (361-363); Martyr Bacchus, from Triglia, by the sword; Venerable Daniel the Confessor (in schema Stephen the Confessor) of Spain and Egypt (10th c.); Saints Athanasius, Nicholas, and Anthony, disciples of Athanasius the Athonite and founders of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (10th c.); Saint Maxentiolus (Mezenceul), a disciple of St Martin of Tours in France, he founded Our Lady of Cunault (5th c.); Saint Tydecho of Wales, brother of Saint Cadfan (6th c.); Saint Briarch, a monk in Wales with St Tudwal and built a monastery in Guingamp (ca.627); Saint Judicäel (Judicael ap Hoel), King of Brittany (658); Saint Begga, founder and Abbess of a convent in Andenne on the Meuse in Belgium (698); Saint Sturm (Sturmius), Abbot and Apostle of Saxony, founder of Fulda Monastery (Germany) (779); Saint Eigil of Fulda, the fourth abbot of Fulda (822); New Martyr Nicetas of Nyssa (ca.1300); Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos, Archbishop of Aegina and Wonderworker (1624); Saint Misael of Abalatsk, Hieromonk (1797); New Hieromartyrs Paisius, Abbot of Trnava (Turnovo), Cacak (1814), and Abbacum, Deacon (1815), at Belgrade; New Hieromartyr Sergius Florinsky, Priest of Rakvere, Estonia (1918); New Hieromartyr Nicholas Beltiukov, Protopresbyter of Perm (1918); New Hieromartyr Alexander Savelov, Priest of Perm (1918); New Hieromartyr John Zemlyani, Priest of Alma-Ata (1937); New Hieromartyr Peter Pokrovsky, Priest (1937); Other commemorations: Repose of Elder Hadji George of Mt. Athos (1886); Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Daniel (Sandu Tudor), poet of Romania (1962); Repose of lay elder Panagis of Ilami, Cyprus (1989).
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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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