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June 10:

Our Holy Lady Theotokos

Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa; Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Constantinople; Saint Bassian, Bishop of Lodi in Lombardy; Venerable Theophanes, monk of Antioch; Saint Pansemne, the former harlot of Antioch; Saint John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia, Wonder-worker; Venerable Silvanus the Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves; Martyr Neaniscus the Wise of Alexandria; Saint Canides, monk of Cappadocia; Saint Apollo, Bishop; Saint Alexius of Bithynia, Bishop; Hieromartyr Metrophanes, the first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New-Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Peking and other places, in 1900; Saint Gregory, Bishop of Assos; Saint Ithamar, Bishop of Rochester; synaxis of the saints of Ryazan; Synaxis of All Saints of Siberia; repose of Elder Nahum of Solovki and Schemamonk Sergius of Valaam; finding of the relics of Saint Basil, Bishop of Ryazan (see also July 3); translation of the relics of Saint Yvo of Slepe



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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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