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January 27 2020:

Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th century); Saint Marciana the Queen, wife of Emperor Justin I (518-527), interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles; Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tamassos, Cyprus; Venerable Claudinus, monastic; Saint Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot Kurapalates), first Bagrationi King of Georgia, murdered (830) (see also January 29); Saint Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (c. 150); Saint Julian of Le Mans, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans in France (3rd century); Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack in the persecution of Diocletian (303); Saint Avitus, venerated in the Canary Islands as their Apostle and first Bishop, martyred in Africa; Saints Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions; and Datius (Dativus), Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions (c. 500); Saint Maurus (Marius, Maur, May), founder of a monastery in Bodon (Bobacum) in France (c. 555); Saint Natalis of Ulster, a monastic founder in the north of Ireland, he worked with St Columba (564); Saint Lupus of Châlons, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saone, famous for his charity to the afflicted (c. 610); Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome (672); Saint Emerius, founder and first Abbot of St Stephen of Bañoles in Catalonia in Spain (8th century); Saint Candida, mother of St Emerius, anchoress at the monastery of St Stephen of Bañoles in Spain (c. 798); Saint Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch (800); Saint Theodoric II of Orleans, monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France, became Bishop of Orleans (1022); Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century); New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784); Saint Demetrius Klepinine, Priest, of Paris (1944); New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh (1929); New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromislov, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1940); Saint Anna Ivashkina, the Confessor of Ryazan (1948); Venerable Leonty (Stasevich) of Ivanovo, Archimandrite, New-Confessor (1972); New Hieromartyr Leontius the Mystic of Ternopil and Jablechna monastery, Poland (1972); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics (437) of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407); Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875); Repose of Schema-nun Margarita (Lakhtionova) of Diveyevo Monastery (1997).

( January 14 2020: Julian Calendar )

Leavetaking (Apodosis) of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Virgin-martyr Agnes, in dark solitary confinement; Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia (335); Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th c.); The Holy Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th c.), including the Holy 38 Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu: Hieromartyrs Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias, and others; Saint Theodoulos, son of St. Nilus of Sinai (5th c.); Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in Triglia, near Chalcedon (716); Saint Felix of Nola, Confessor of Nola in Italy (ca.250); Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals; Saint Dacius (Datius), Bishop of Milan, exorcist (552); Saint Kentigern (Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow), first Bishop of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614) - (see also January 13 - Greek and Western); Saint Sava I of Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Enlightener and First Archbishop of Serbia (1235) - (see also January 12 - Russian); Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of Tarnovo in Bulgaria (13th c.); Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567) - (see also June 29); Saint Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to Yakutia (1900); New Hiero-Confessor John (Kevroletin), Hiero-Schemamonk, of Verkhoturye (1961); New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan (ca. 1933); New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabug (1918); New-Martyr Platon (Kulbush), Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919) - (see also January 1); Other Commemorations: Repose of Nicholas Motovilov (1879), disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov; Repose of Hieromonk Cosmas of Grigoriou, Missionary to Zaire (1989).

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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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