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June 9 2023:

Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria; Pelagia and the three Virgin Martyrs of Chios; Saint Cyril, Abbot of White Lake (Byelozersk); Venerable Columba of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland; Saint Alexander, Abbot of Kushta (Vologda); five nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thekla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Enmatha; Righteous Cyril of Velsk or Vazhesk (Vologda); Hieromartyr Alexander of Prussa; Martyr Ananias; Saint Cyril, monk; Saint Baithene, Abbot of Iona; Saint John Shavteli of Salosi, Georgia (see also April 1); Martyrs Priscos and Felician of Nomentum; repose of Hieromonk Vitaly of Valaam; Saint Alexey Mechev of Moscow

( May 27 2023: Julian Calendar )

Hieromartyr Therapont of Sardis, Bishop, by beheading (259); Martyr Julius the Veteran, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297); Virgin-martyr Theodora, and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, at Alexandria (304); Martyr Eusebiotus, by fire; Martyr Alypius, by stoning; Martyr Juliana (see also March 4); Hieromartyr Helladius, Bishop (6th-7th c.); Saint Michael of Parekhi, Georgia (8th-9th c.); Saint Basil of Khakhuli, son of King Bagrat III (11th c.); Saint Restituta and Companions (272) (see also May 17); Saint Eutropius of Orange, succesor of St Justin as Bishop of Orange in France, when the diocese had been laid waste by the Visigoths (475); Venerable Melangell of Wales, Abbess (590); Martyr Ranulf (Ragnulf), in Thélus near Arras in France, (the father of St. Hadulph, Bishop of Arras-Cambrai) (700); Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735); Saint Bruno of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg (1045); Venerable Therapont of White Lake, Abbot of Byelozersk (White Lake) and Mozhaisk (1426); Saint Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow (1473); Venerable Therapont of Monza, Abbot of Monza (1597); Venerable Hiero-schema-monk Lazarus of Pskov-Caves Monastery (1824); Venerable Elias, of Russia (see also December 7); Saint John the Russian, whose relics are on the island of Euboea (1730); Saint Alexis (Mechev), Priest of Moscow (1922); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics (1472) of Sts. Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), and Jonah (1461), Metropolitans of Kiev; Translation of the relics (1667) of Venerable Nilus of Stolobny Island (stylite of Seliger Lake) (1554); Repose of Blessed Zina of Vetluga (1960);

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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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