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Today's feastsDecember 24 2025:
The Eve of the Nativity of Christ; Venerable Nun-martyr Eugenia of Rome, and with her: Martyrs Philip (her father), Protus and Hyacinth (Jacinth), Basilla, and Claudia (262); Martyrs Sossios and Theokleios (ca.286-305); Martyr Castulus (ca.307-323); Martyr Achaicus, by the sword; Venerable Vitimionus of Scetis (Bitimionus of Scete) (5th c.); Venerable Aphrodisius, monk of Palestine (6th c.); Venerable Antiochus of Palestine (Antiochus Strategos, Antiochos Sabbaitis), monk of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified in Jerusalem (635); Venerable Nicholas the Monk, of Bulgaria (Nicholas the former soldier) (ca.802-811); Martyrs Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus and Drusus, in Tripoli in North Africa; Hieromartyr Gregory of Spoleto, a priest martyred in Spoleto in Italy under Maximinian Herculeus; Saint Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux in France; he helped convert St Paulinus of Nola and was an untiring opponent of Priscillianism (404); Saint Venerandus, of a senatorial family in Clermont in Auvergne in France, became bishop there from 385-423 (423); Saint Caranus, a saint of the east of Scotland; Saint Tarsila, an aunt of St Gregory the Great, sister of St Emiliana and niece of Pope Felix (581); Saint Mochua, Abbot of Timahoe (637); Saint Irmina, sister of St. Adela, daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks) (708); Saint Adela, daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks), first Abbess of Pfalzel near Trier in Germany (ca.730); Saint Alberic (Albert), a monk at Gladbach Abbey in Germany (10th c.); Saint Bruno, a holy man at the monastery of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria in Germany (1050); New-Martyr Achmed (Ahmet) the Calligrapher, at Constantinople (1682) (see also May 3); Venerable Agapios the Younger (1812); Martyrs Protopresbyter St. Michael Shafaniv, and Presbytera St. Sofia (1918) (see also September 1); New Hieromartyr Innocent (Beda), Archimandrite, of Voronezh (Innokenty (Bida) of Poltava) (1928); New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Archpriest, of Moscow (1942).
Martyrs Terentius, Vincent, Emilian, and Bebaia, by the sword; Martyrs Peter the Acsetic, and Acepsimas, in Persia; Monk-martyr Barsabas, Abbot of Ishtar and ten companions, in Persia (342); Martyrs Aeithalas and Acepsius, at Arbela in Assyria (354); Saint Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople (490); Martyr Mirax of Egypt (ca.640); Saint Nikephoros Phokas, Emperor of Byzantium (969); Saint Luke the New Stylite, of Chalcedon (979); Martyrs Victoricus, Fuscian, and Gentian (ca.287); Martyrs Thrason, Pontian and Praetextatus, in Rome under Diocletian, for ministering to Christian prisoners awaiting martyrdom (302); Saint Eutychius, a martyr called San Oye either in Mérida or in Cádiz in Spain (4th c.); Saint Sabinus of Piacenza, Bishop of Piacenza in Italy and a close friend of St Ambrose, renowned for miracles (420); Saint Cían, hermit in Wales (6th c.); Saint Peris, patron saint of Llanberis in Wales (ca.6th c.); Saint Fidweten (Fivetein, Fidivitanus), a monk and disciple of St Convoyon in Redon in Brittany (ca.888); Venerable Nicon “the Dry” of the Kiev Caves (1101); Venerable Leontius, monk of Monemvasia in the Peloponnese (ca.1450); Venerable Damaskinos; Venerable Nomon the Wonderworker, of Cyprus; Saint Kuksha (Velichko), Hiero-Schemamonk of Odessa (1964); New Hieromartyr Theophan (Ilminsky), Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk, and with him two priests and five laymen, martyrs (1918); New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1937); New Hieromartyr John Bogoyavlensky, Priest (1941); Other Commemorations: Synaxis of the Saints of Georgia.
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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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