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October 23 2019:

Holy Apostle James the Brother of the Lord; Saint Ignatius, Patriarch of Constantinople; Saint Nicephorus of Constantinople; Saint Petronius, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great; Venerable Elicia of Lavreshev; Saint Ethelfleda, Abbess of Romsey; Saint Oda of Amay, foundress of churches; Saint Makarios the Roman; translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, Wonder-worker of Novgorod

( October 10 2019: Julian Calendar )

Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia at Nicomedia, and 200 martyrs with them; Martyr Theotecnus of Antioch; Saint Theophilus the Confessor of Bulgaria; Saint Bassian of Constantinople; Blessed Andrew of Totma, Fool-for-Christ; Venerable Ambrose of Optina; 26 martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos, by the Latin Crusaders: Abbot Thomas, monks Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah, Simon, Hilarion, Job, James, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas, Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioannicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, Parthenius, and four laymen (see also September 21 and 22); synaxis of the seven saints of Volhynia: Saint Job, Abbot of Pochaev, Stephen and Amphilochius, Bishops of Vladimir in Volhynia, Hieromartyr Macarius, Archimandrite of Kanev, Saint Yaropolk, prince of Vladimir-Volhynia, Saint Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius), prince of Ostrog, and Saint Juliana Olshanskaya; synaxis of the righteous fathers of the Optina Monastery in Russia: Saints Leo, Macarius, Moses, Anthony, Hilarion, Ambrose, Anatolius, Isaacius, Joseph, Barsanuphius, Anatolius the Younger, Nectarius, Nicon, and Isaacius the second; Saint Paulinos, Bishop of Rochester; New Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsa; Zographou Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Akathist;" repose of Bishop Innocent of Penze

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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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