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Welcome'''OrthodoxWiki''' is a free-content encyclopedia and information center for '''Orthodox Christianity''' that '''anyone can edit'''.  We've just opened. Things are still pretty rough around here, but we're making progress every day. Want to help? 
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<div style="float:right;margin:0 1em 0 3%;">[[Image:John of Damascus4.jpg|110px|St. John of Damascus, patron saint of OrthodoxWiki]]</div><div style="margin: 2.5em 0 0 3%; text-align: left; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.3;">'''[[OrthodoxWiki:Welcome|Welcome]]''' to '''[[OrthodoxWiki:About|OrthodoxWiki]]''', a free-content encyclopedia and information center for '''[[Orthodox Christianity]]''' that '''anyone can edit'''.  In this English version, started in November 2004, we are currently working on '''[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] [[Special:Allpages|articles]]'''. Please '''[[Special:RequestAccount|register]] or [[Special:Userlogin|login]]''' to post or revise content.<br>
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The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. [[John of Damascus]] as their heavenly [[patron saint|patron]] and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy [[Trinity]] and the faith of the [[Orthodox Church]] by means of these pages.  
  
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St. John of Damascus, patron saint of OrthodoxWiki
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March 28 2024:

Our Holy Trinity

Apostle Herodion of Patras of the Seventy Apostles (1st century); Saints Priscus, Malchus, and Alexander, of Caesarea of Palestine (259); Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia (330): Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas (see also March 29); Venerable Hesychios the Theologian of Jerusalem (434), disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian.; Venerable Hilarion the New, Abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (754); Saint Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia (815) (see also March 26); Hieromartyrs George, Bishop of Zagora, Parodus and Peter, priests, and Martyr Prince Enravota-Boyan (833), of Bulgaria; Martyrs Rogatus, Successus and Companions, a group of eighteen martyrs in North Africa; Saint Sixtus III of Rome (Xystus), Pope of Rome from 432; Saint Spes (Speus), an Abbot of Campi in central Italy (c. 513); Saint Gontram (Gunthrammus), a repentant King of Burgundy in France (592); Saint Gundelindis (Guendelindis), a daughter of the Duke of Alsace and niece of St Ottilia, whom she succeeded as Abbess of Niedermünster Abbey (c. 750); Saint Tutilo (Tuotilo), a gifted and artistic monk at St Gall Abbey in Switzerland (c. 915); Saint Conon of Naso, a monk and Abbot of the Greek monastery of Nesi in Sicily (1236); Venerable Martyr Eustratius of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1096); Saint Mstislav, Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, son of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky (1173); Venerable Hilarion of Pskov, monk, of Lake Gdov (1476); Venerable Dionysius the Merciful, Bishop of Larissa (1510); Venerable Jonah, Abbot of Klimets Monastery, Olonets (1534); Saint John, Bishop of Manglisi, Georgia (1751); New Hieromartyr Nicholas Postnikov, Priest(1931); New Hieromartyr Basil Malinin, Priest (1938); Martyr John Chernoff (1939); New Hieromartyr Peter Ochryzko, Priest of Chartoviec (Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944); Other Commemorations: Icon of the Mother of God of "the Sign" (see also November 27)' Repose of Abbot Adrian (in schema Alexis) of Konevits Monastery (1812); Repose of Blessed Helen of Arzamas, disciple of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam Monastery (1820);



( March 15 2024: Julian Calendar )

Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy

Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain; (1st c.); Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303); Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275) Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305); Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalem; Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th c.); Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555); Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571); Saint Zacharias, Pope of Rome (752); Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859); Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk (Nizhni-Novgorod) (1603); New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792); Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805); New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Tver (1938); New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938); New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsk, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the earthquake of 1938.



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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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