October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 9.

From the Synaxarion Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21)Saint Zacharias the Martyr: Biography (in Greek), at saint.gr, retrieved 7 August 2021.Holy Venerable Martyr Zacharias at johnsanidopoulos.com, retrieved 7 August 2021.Holy Martyr Zacharias at johnsanidopoulos.com, retrieved 7 August 2021.

Saints Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167)October 22 / November 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀβέρκιος ὁ Ἱσαπόστολος καὶ Θαυματουργὸς. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 22 Οκτωβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).St. Abercius the Bishop and Wonderworker of Hieropolis, Equal of the Apostles. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople (2nd-3rd centuries)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλέξανδρος, Θεοδότη, Γλυκερία, Ἄννα καὶ Ἐλισάβετ οἱ Μάρτυρες. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St. Alexander the Bishop at Adrianopolis. OCA - Lives of the Saints. The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 and c. 446)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι 7 Παῖδες ἐν Ἐφέσῳ. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.7 Holy Youths "Seven Sleepers" of Ephesus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: August 4) Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362) Venerables LotGreat Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Λῶτ. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. and Rufus,Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ροῦφος. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. of Egypt (5th century) 22/10/2017. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐλάλιος. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)October 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314)November 4 / October 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388) Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), Bishop of Verona in Italy (522) Saint Simplicius, a disciple of St Benedict and third Abbot of Montecassino (c. 570) Saint Maroveus, a monk at Bobbio Abbey and founder of the monastery of Precipiano near Tortona in Italy (650) Saint Nunctus (Noint), Abbot of a monastery near Mérida in the west of Spain, murdered by robbers and venerated as a martyr (668) Saint Moderan (Moderamnus, Moran), Bishop of Rennes, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. MODERAN, B. OF RENNES. (A.D. 719.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 573-575. Saint Benedict of Massérac (Benoît de Macérac), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near Nantes in France (845) Saints Nunilo and Alodia, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca in Spain (851)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. NUNILO AND ALODIA, VV. MM. (A.D. 851.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 575. Saint Bertharius, a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884) Saint Donatus of Fiesole, born in Ireland, he went on pilgrimage to Rome and became Bishop of Fiesole near Florence in Italy (874)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. DONATUS, B. OF FIESOLI. (ABOUT A.D. 874.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 575-576.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Saints Theodore and Paul, Abbots, of Rostov (1409)St. Theodore of Rostov. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Gregory of Methoni, Bishop of Methoni in Greece and Ethnomartyr (1825)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἐθνομάρτυρας, Ἐπίσκοπος Μεθώνης. 22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959) (see also: October 24 - Russian; November 4 - Greek)

New Martys and Confessors New Hieromartyrs(1937): Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich; 22 октября по старому стилю / 4 ноября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. 4 ноября (22 октября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Herman (Polyansky) ГЕРМАН. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). and Menas (Shelaev), Archimandrites; Alexander Lebedev, АЛЕКСАНДР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Vladimir Sobolev, ВЛАДИМИР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Basil Bogoyavlensky, ВАСИЛИЙ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). and Alexander Andreyev, АЛЕКСАНДР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Priests. New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Bogoslovsky and Nicholas Ushakov, Priests (1937) New Hieromartyr Gregory (Vorobiev), Abbot, of Koprino, Yaroslavl (1937) ГРИГОРИЙ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

Other commemorations The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (commemorating the deliverance from the Poles in 1612)Commemoration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the deliverance from the Poles. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Icons of the Mother of God "Andronikos"Icon of the Mother of God of Andronicus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. АНДРОНИКОВА (ГРЕЧЕСКАЯ, МОНЕМВАСИЙСКАЯ) ИКОНА БОЖИЕЙ МАТЕРИ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). and "Jacobstadt" (17th century) Repose of Monk Joseph the Silent, of Kuban (1925) Repose of Metropolitan Nestor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk (1962) Repose of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (1988) Uncovering of the relics (2012) of New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod (1918) (see also: October 20)

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