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Today's feastsJanuary 22 2019:
Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles (ca. 96); Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian (628); 377 martyrs in Bulgaria, including: bishops Manuel, George, Peter, and Leontius, presbyters Sionius, Gabriel, John, Leontius, and Parodus; Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa), in Valencia under Diocletian (304); Martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, near Gerona in Spain (305); Saint Vincent of Digne, Bishop of Digne in France (380); Saint Blaesilla, a daughter of St Paula (383); Saint Gaudentius of Novara, Bishop of Novara and Confessor (417); Saint Wendreda, Virgin of March, Cambridgeshire (7th century); Saint Dominic of Sora, founder of several monasteries, renowned for miracles (1031); Saint Brithwald of Wilton (Bertwald of Ramsbury), Bishop of Ramsbury (1045); Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th century); Venerable Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511); Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Zhabyn (Belev), Wonder-worker (1623); Saint Ioasaph (Bolotov), Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799) New Hieromartyrs John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John (1938); New Hieromartyrs John Uspensky and Euthymius Tikhonravov, Priests (1938); Other Commemorations: Finding of the Holy Icon of "Panagia Eleistria" in Koroni, Messenia (1897).
Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias), III Kings 12:22, (10th c. BC) - (see also January 8 - Greek); Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259); Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea; Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena; Saint Peter of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 395); Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker, of Tarsus (821); Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th c.); Virgin-Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon in France (ca.178); Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, under Decian (ca.250); Virgin-martyr Marciana of Mauretania (ca.303); Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566); Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (ca.686); Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (ca.700); Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710); Saint Brithwald (Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731); Saint Foellan (Foilan, Fillan), son of St Kentigerna, Abbot of Strathfillan (8th c.); New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, in Macedonia (1375); Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569); Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko), (Peter in Schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev, Wonderworker (1902); New Hieromartyr Paul (Florensky), Priest (1943); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869); Translation of the relics (903) of St. Judoc, hermit of Ponthieu; Commemoration of Stefan Yavorsky, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom (1722), defender of Orthodoxy; Commemoration of Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel (Starodub), Native of Poltava (2010), and of his spiritual Father, Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly (Sidorenko).
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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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