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Saints Hermes and Theodora the martyrs (132); Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis (177); Saints Alexander, Dionysius, Ingeniani, Panteros (or Pantainos), Parthenios and Saturninus the Martyrs; Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides (3rd c.); Martyr Polynikos; Righteous Achaz; Venerable Mary of Egypt (ca. 421); Saint Makarios of Pelekete, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery (820); Saint Procopius of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (1053); Venantius, a Dalmatian bishop whose relics were brought from Spalato to Rome in 641 (ca.255); Martyr hermit Tewdric of Tintern, Wales (6th c.); Saint Valéry (Walric, Walericus), Abbot of Leuconay (Saint-Valery-sur-Somme) (622); Saints Caidoc and Fricor (Adrian), Welsh missionaries (7th c.); Saint Dodolinus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné in France (7th c.); Saint Cellach (Cellach mac Congaile), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of Iona in Scotland and founder of the Monastery of Kells (815); Saint John Shavteli of Salosi (John of Black Mountain), Georgia (12th-13th c.); Saint Eulogius of Salosi, Georgia, (Eulogius the Prophet), Fool-for-Christ (12th-13th c.); Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, on the Volga, Wonderworker of Vladimir (1229); Saint Gerontius of the Kiev Caves, Canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th c.); Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Suzdal (1404); Saint Pachomius (Romansky) of the Kyiv Caves, Bishop (1724); Saint Barsanuphius of Optina, Elder (1913); Hieromartyr Joachim (Levitsky) of Kyiv, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod, crucified upside down at Sevastopol (1921); New martyr Michael (Misha), Fool-for-Christ (1931); New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zavarin), Priest, new martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1938); New Hieromartyr Schema-bishop Macarius, of St. Macarius the Roman Monastery, near Lezna (1944).
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus, the priest Diodorus, and the deacon Marianus; Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (302); Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated in Sorrento near Naples in Italy; Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga in Portugal (4th century); Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey (near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460); Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy and became abbot of a large monastic colony there for 44 years (6th century); Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640); Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668); Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven (c. 668); Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672); Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800) Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, whose relics were enshrined at Hürbach; Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206); Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473); Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521), disciple of St. Nilus of Sora; New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564); Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612); New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657); Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932); New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938); Saint Symeon (Popovic), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941); Other Commemorations: Smolensk "Umileniye" ("Tender Feeling", "Sweet-Kissing") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos; Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov (15th century).
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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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