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April 22 2025:

Saint Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis; Saint Vitalis, monk of Gaza; Apostles Nathaniel, Luke, and Clement; Martyr Epipodius of Lyons; Martyr Nearchus; Hieromartyr Sava (Trlajic) of Serbia; Hieromartyr Platon the New of Banja Luka; translation of the relics of Saint Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince of Pskov; repose of Blessed Fool-for-Christ Athanasius Andreyevich of Orel

( April 9 2025: Julian Calendar )

Martyrs Fortunatus, Donatus, twelve virgins, and six laymen, at Sirmium (304); Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (362); Hieromartyrs Desan the Bishop; the Priest Mariabus; and Martyrs Abdiesus and 270 others, in Persia (362) Venerable Hieromartyr Bademus (Vadim), Archimandrite, of Persia, and 7 disciples (379); Venerable Acacius of Amida, Bishop of Amida in Mesopotamia (5th century); Martyrs of Pannonia, seven virgin-martyrs in Sirmium in Pannonia; Martyrs of North-West Africa, a group of Christians martyred in Masyla; Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Die, celebrated for miracles (474); Saint Materiana of Cornwall (Madrun), a saint from Wales or Cornwall to whom some Welsh churches are dedicated (5th century) Saint Dotto, Abbot of a monastery in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland (6th century); Saint Waltrude (Woutruide, Waldetrudis, Vaudru), monastic foundress at Bergen (Netherlands), renowned for holiness of life and miracles (688); Saint Hugh of Rouen (Hugh of Champagne), Bishop of Rouen and then of Paris, and was also Abbot of Fontenelle and Jumièges (730); Saint Hedda and Companions, Abbot of Peterborough in England, martyred by the Danes (869); Saint Theodore and Companions, Abbot of Crowland in England, martyred by the Danes (869); Saint Casilda of Toledo, an anchoress near Briviesca near Burgos (1050); Newly Revealed Martyrs Raphael (Archimandrite), Nicholas (Deacon), and Irene (child), of Lesbos, and those with them (1463); New Martyr Gabriel Fomin (1942); Other Commemorations: Translation of the holy relics of Saint Monica of Tagaste to Rome.

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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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