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Today's feasts August 20 2017: Afterfeast of the Dormition; Prophet Samuel; Hieromartyr Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon, and 37 soldiers in Thrace; Martyr Lucius the senator of Cyprus; Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia; Martyr Photina at the door of the Church in Blachernae; Martyr King Oswin of Deira; New Martyr Theocharis of Neapolis (Nevşehir) in Cappadocia (†1740); Other events: repose of Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose) of Platina ( August 7 2017: Julian Calendar ) Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples; Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the senator at Caesaria in Palestine; Saint Poemen (Pimen) the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves; Saint Hor (Horus) of the Thebaid, in Egypt; Saint Pimen, faster of the Kiev Caves; Virgin-Martyr Potamia the Wonder-worker; Saint Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos; Saint Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk (Kiev Caves); Elder Anthony of Optina; Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes; Hieromartyr Narcissus, Patriarch of Jerusalem; Saint Hyperechius of the Paradise; Saint Sozon of Nicomedia; Saint Theodosius the New, healer of Peloponnesus; Venerable Theodora of Sihla; Saint Nicanor, Wonder-worker of Mount Calistratus; translation of the relics of Saint Metrophanes, first Bishop of Voronezh; repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery, and Schemamonk John the Blind of Valaam; repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast of Mount Athos Featured article 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." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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