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April 20 2024:

Saint Theodore Trichinas ("the Hair-shirt Wearer"), hermit near Constantinople; Saint Anastasius, abbot of Sinai; Blessed Gregory and Blessed Anastasius, Patriarchs of Antioch; Hieromartyr Anastasius II, Patriarch of Antioch; Venerable Alexander, abbot of Oshevensk; Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk; Saints Betran and Theotimus, Bishops in Lesser Scythia; Saints Athanasius and Ioasaph of Meteora, monks; Apostle Zacchaeus, Bishop of Caesarea; Saint Caedwalla (Peter), King of Wessex; Saint Joseph of Serbia; Martyrs Victor, Zoticos, Zeno, Acindynos, and Severian of Nicomedia; 6,000 martyrs of the St. David Gareji Monastery, Georgia; translation of the relics of Saint Nicholas Velimirovich, Bishop of Ochrid and Zicha; New Hieromartyr Theodosius (Ganitsky), bishop of Kolomenskoye (1937); repose of Schemamonk Ignatius of Saint Nicephorus Monastery in Olonets.

( April 7 2024: Julian Calendar )

Saint Tikhon of Moscow and Enlightener of North America (see also March 25); Saint George the Confessor, Bishop of Mitylene; Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia; Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope; Saint Serapion of Egypt, monk (see also May 14); Venerable Daniel, Abbot of Peryaslavl-Zalesski; Saint Nilus, Abbot of Sora; Saint Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk; Saint Goran of Cornwall; Saint Brynach of Wales; opening of the relics of Saint Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod. Other events: repose of Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind of Valaam

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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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