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April 26 2025:

Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasea; Saint Stephen, Bishop of Perm; Righteous Virgin-martyr Glaphyra; Saint Ioannicius of Devich in Serbia; Saint Justa; Saint Nestor the Silent; Saints Andrew and Anatole, disciples of Saint Euthymius the Great; Hieromartyr Anacletos, Pope of Rome; Saint Richarios, Hermit of Forest-Moutier; Icon of the Theotokos of Mozdoksk and Dubensk-Krasnogorsk

( April 13 2025: Julian Calendar )

Saints Theodosia the Princess (daughter of Emperor Hadrian), and the Eunuch Gerontios (ca. 117-138); Martyrs Dadas, Quinctillian and Maximus the Lectors, at Dorostolum (c. 284-305) (see also April 28); Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia (3rd century) (see also April 15); Hieromartyr Artemon, priest of Laodicea in Syria (303) (see also April 12); Martyrs Eleutherius of Persia, and Zoilus, by beheading (4th century); Martyr Theodosius, by the sword; Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476) (see also April 14); Saint Martyrius of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (486); Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (655) (see also April 14); Two Confessor Bishops, who were exiled to the Crimean peninsula together with St. Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (c. 655); Venerable martyr Christophoros, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified; Saint Ursus, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (396); Saint Martius, Abbot, of Clermont in Gaul (c. 530); Saint Hermenegild, son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild (586); Saint Guinoch of Buchan (Guinoc, Guinochus), a Bishop in Scotland (c. 838); Saint Arsenios of Elassonna (Arsenius of Suzdal), Archbishop of Elassona (1625) (see also April 29); Saint Anastasia (Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg), nun and foundress of the Holy Protection Convent (Pokrovsky) in Kiev (1900); New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk (1933); New Martyrs of Vasiliisk in St Nicholas’ Eparchy in Ukraine (1937): New Hieromartyr Sergius Shtenko, and Martyrs Prochor Bunchuk and St Cyril Preymak; Virgin-martyr Martha Testovoy (1941); Other Commemorations: Repose of Archimandrite Herman of Svyatogorsk (1890); Translation of the relics (1967) of the New Martyr George of Cyprus (1752); Repose of Elder Cosmas of Pantokratoros monastery, Mt. Athos (1970).

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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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