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April 27 2025:

Hieromartyr Symeon the kinsman of the Lord, Apostle of the Seventy and Bishop of Jerusalem (107); Martyr Anthimus of Nicomedia, Bishop (303); Martyr Poplionus (Poplion, Popllon); Martyr Lollionus the New (Longinus the New); Saint Pollion the Reader (Pollio), of Cibalis in Pannonia, burnt alive under Diocletian (306); Saint Eulogius the Hospitable of Constantinople (6th c.); Saint Nicon, abbot of the Monastery of St. Gerasimus (6th c.); Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger of Cilicia (Symeon the New Stylite) (597), and his brother George; Saint John of Cathares, abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople (839); Saint Liberalis of Treviso, priest from Ancona in Italy, worked for the conversion of the Arians and suffered much at their hands (400); Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Brescia (427); Saint Maughold {Machalus), Bishop of the Isle of Man (ca.488); Saint Assicus (Ascicus, Tassach), first bishop of Elphin, Ireland, converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick (490); Saint Tertullian, eighth Bishop of Bologna in Italy (490); Saint Enoder (Cynidr, Kenedr, Quidic) (6th c.); Saint Winewald, Abbot of Beverley in England (ca.731); Saint Floribert of Liège (746); Saint Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia (1094); New Hieromartyr Seraphim of Phanarion, Bishop of Phanarion and Neokhorion (1601); New Martyr Elias Ardunis of Mount Athos (1686) New Hieromartyrs Paul (Svetozarov), Protopresbyter (1922) and John (Rozhdestvensky), Priests of Ivanova (1922); New Martyrs: Peter (Yazikov), Nicholas (Malkov), Auxentius (Kalashnikov), Sergius (Mefodiev) and Virgin-martyr Anastasia, at Ivanova (1922); Virgin-martyr Mary (1938); New Hieromartyr John (Spassky), Priest of Tver (1941); Other Commemorations: Incineration of the relics of Saint Sabbas, first Archbishop of Serbia, by Sinan Pasha (1595); Glorification (1999) of New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereya (1929)

( April 14 2025: Julian Calendar )

Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (see also April 13); Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilnius (Lithuania); Martyr Ardalion the Actor; Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs of Persia; Saint Christopher the Sabbaite; Saint Kyriakos, Bishop of Jerusalem; Saint Euthymius the Wonder-worker; Saints Aristarchos, Pudens, and Trophimos, the Apostles of the Seventy (see also April 15); Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (see also April 13); New-martyr Demetrios of the Peloponnesos (see also April 13)

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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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