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May 16 2012:

Saint Theodore the Sanctified, disciple of the Venerable Pachomius the Great; Venerable Ephraim, Abbot of Perekos, Wonder-worker of Novgorod; Blessed child Musa of Rome; Saint George, Bishop of Mitylene; Martyr Abdiesus (or Avda), Bishop, and 38 companions, in Persia; Martyr Peter of Blachernae; Saint Nicholas the Mystic, Patriarch of Constantinople; Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania; New-Martyr Nicholas of Metsov, whose relics are at Meteora; Saints Cassian and Laurence, Abbots of Komel (Vologda); Saint Alexander, Archbishop of Jerusalem; Saint Euphemia near Neaorion; Holy Fathers of St. Savvas Lavra, who were killed by the Blemmyers; Saint Theodore of Vrsac, Serbia; New-martyr Vukasin of Klepci, Serbia; Saint Brendan the Voyager (or Navigator); Saint Carantoc of Carhampton; Martyr Papelinos; Martyrs Symeon, Isaac, and Dachthisoes of Persia; Hieromartyr Peregrine, Bishop of Auxerre

( May 3 2012: Julian Calendar )

Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (304); Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (285-305); Great-martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, the Wonderworker (318); Saint Juvenal of Narni (ca.369/377); Saint Glywys of Cornwall (Gluvias) (5th c.); Saint Æthelwine, Bishop of Lindsey (ca. 700); Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744); Saint Philip of Worms (Philip of Zell) (770); Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.); Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th c.) Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (ca. 928); Saint Ecumenius of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th c.) Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010); Saint Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074); St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (14th c.); Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow; Saint Gregory, Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery) (1416); New-Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682); Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.); New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821); Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900); New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1941); Other commemorations: Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mount Stirion (953); Translation of the relics of Martyr-King Olaf of Norway (+1030); Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073); "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288).

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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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