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St. John of Damascus, patron saint of OrthodoxWiki
Welcome to OrthodoxWiki, a free-content encyclopedia and information center for Orthodox Christianity that anyone can edit. In this English version, started in November 2004, we are currently working on 4,953 articles. Please register or login to post or revise content.

All new user registrations are moderated because of persistent trouble with spammers. When you sign-up, please give some indication that you are a real person, and let us know why you want to add and edit content on OrthodoxWiki (everyone can view content). Registrations with no bios will be rejected unless we can verify you in some other way. Please be patient as we process your application. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. John of Damascus as their heavenly patron and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy Trinity and the faith of the Orthodox Church by means of these pages.

Please take a moment to read about what OrthodoxWiki is and is not.

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June 16 2024:

Our Holy Lady Theotokos

Saint Tikhon (Tychon), Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus, Wonder-worker; Saint Tikhon (Tychon) of Luchov, Kostroma; Saint Tikhon of Kaluga or Medin; Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk (Vologda); Martyrs Tigirius (Tigrius) the Presbyter and Eutropius the Reader, of Constantinople; Saint Mark the Just of Apollonia, nephew of Apostle Barnabas; New-Martyr Hermogenes (Germogen), Bishop of Tobolsk; Saint Qiakhosro of Georgia; Saint Ismael, Bishop of Menevia; Saint Juliot, sister of Saint Nectan of Hartland (see also June 17 and December 4); five martyrs of Nicomedia; forty martyrs of Rome; repose of Archimandrite Moses, founder of Optina Skete; repose of Elder Gerasimus of Saint Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery



( June 3 2024: Julian Calendar )

Our Holy Lady Theotokos

Martyr Lucillian and those who suffered with him at Byzantium: four youths: Claudius, Hypatius, Paul and Dionysius, and Virgin Paula; Hieromartyr Lucian, and with him Deacon Julian, Presbyter Maximian, Marcellinus, and Saturninus at Beauvais in France; Saint Athanasius, Wonder-worker of Cilicia; Saint Hieria, widow, of Mesopotamia; Saint Clotilde (Chlotilda), Queen of France; Saint Pappos, monk; Saint David of the Gareji Monastery; Saint Kevin, Abbot of Glendalough, Ireland; Saint Meriasek, Bishop of Camborne; translation of the relics of the slain Crown Prince Demetrius of Moscow (see also May 15)


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