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September 17 2024:

Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross; Martyr Sophia and her three daughters Faith (Pistis, Vera), Hope (Elpitha, Nadezhda), and Love (Agape, Lyubov) at Rome; Martyr Agathocleia; Martyr Theodota at Nicaea; 156 martyrs of Palestine, including Bishops Peleus and Nilus, Presbyter Zeno, and noblemen Patermuthius and Elias; Martyrs Lucy and her son Geminian of Rome; Hieromartyrs Heraclides and Myron, Bishops of Cyprus; 100 martyrs of Egypt; Martyrs Charalampos, Panteleon, and others; Saint Anastasius of Cyprus, monk; Saint Eusipius of Cyprus, monk; Martyrs Socrates and Stephen; Hieromartyr Lambert of Maastricht; repose of Blessed Agapius, disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, and Blessed lay-recluse Matthew of Petersburg

( September 4 2024: Julian Calendar )

Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, and with him Martyrs Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonius, and their mother Christodula; Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses; Martyr Babylas of Nicomedia, and with him 84 children; Martyrs Theodore, Mianus (Ammianus), Julian, Kion (Oceanus), and Centurionus of Nicomedia; Martyr Hermione, daughter of St. Philip the Deacon and Apostle (see October 11); Saint Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great; Martyrs Theotimus and Theodulus the executioners; Martyr Charitina of Amisus; Martyrs Thathuil and Bebaia of Edessa; Martyr Sarbelos of Edessa; Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Serbia; Saint Anthimus the New of Coroucle in Cephallenia; Martyrs Jerusalem, Sekendos, Sekendios, and Kegouros in Aleppo; New-hieromartyr Gorazd, Bishop of Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia; Saint Ultan, Bishop of Meath; Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Unburnt Bush"; opening of the relics of Saint Ioasaph, Bishop of Belgorod (see also December 10); second finding of the relics of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Vorenzh; translation of the relics of Saint Birinos, Bishop of Dorchester-on-Thames and Enlightener of Wessex; translation of the relics of Saint Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne

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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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