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September 24 2026:

Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla; Saint Coprius of Palestine; Venerable Nicander, hermit of Pskov; Saint Abramius, Abbot of Mirozh (Pskov); Saints Stephen (in monasticism Simon), David, and Vladislav of Serbia; Saint Dorothy of Kashin; Saint Mawgan, Abbot of Cornwall; New-Martyr Ahmed; Venerable Silouan of Mount Athos; martyrdom of Saint Galacteon, monk of Vologda; repose of Schema-archimandrite Gabriel of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery; synaxis of all saints of Alaska (see also December 12): Hieromartyr Juvenal the Protomartyr of America, Peter the Aleut, and New-Martyrs Anatole of Irkutsk and Seraphim of Uglich

( September 11 2026: Julian Calendar )

Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos; Saint Euphrosynus the Cook of Alexandria; Martyr Ia of Persia and 9,000 martyrs with her; Martyrs Diodorus, Didymus, and Diomedes of Laodicea; Martyrs Demetrius, his wife Euanthis, and their son Demetrian at Skepsis on the Hellespont; Martyrs Serapion, Cronides (Hieronides), and Leontius of Alexandria; Martyr Theodora of Alexandria; Martyr Theodora of Vasta (Arcadia); Saint Deiniol, Bishop of Bangor; Martyrs Protos and Hyacinthos of Rome; canonization of Saint Xenia of St. Petersburg, Fool-for-Christ; weeping Kazan Icon of the Theotokos of "Kaplunovka;" translation of the relics of Saints Sergius and Herman, Wonder-workers of Valaam; repose of young Elder Melchizedek of Mzensk and Schemamonk Silouan of Mount Athos

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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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