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Today's feastsMay 27 2019:
Hieromartyr Therapont of Sardis, Bishop, by beheading (259); Martyr Julius the Veteran, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297); Virgin-martyr Theodora, and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, at Alexandria (304); Martyr Eusebiotus, by fire; Martyr Alypius, by stoning; Martyr Juliana (see also March 4); Hieromartyr Helladius, Bishop (6th-7th c.); Saint Michael of Parekhi, Georgia (8th-9th c.); Saint Basil of Khakhuli, son of King Bagrat III (11th c.); Saint Restituta and Companions (272) (see also May 17); Saint Eutropius of Orange, succesor of St Justin as Bishop of Orange in France, when the diocese had been laid waste by the Visigoths (475); Venerable Melangell of Wales, Abbess (590); Martyr Ranulf (Ragnulf), in Thélus near Arras in France, (the father of St. Hadulph, Bishop of Arras-Cambrai) (700); Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735); Saint Bruno of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg (1045); Venerable Therapont of White Lake, Abbot of Byelozersk (White Lake) and Mozhaisk (1426); Saint Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow (1473); Venerable Therapont of Monza, Abbot of Monza (1597); Venerable Hiero-schema-monk Lazarus of Pskov-Caves Monastery (1824); Venerable Elias, of Russia (see also December 7); Saint John the Russian, whose relics are on the island of Euboea (1730); Saint Alexis (Mechev), Priest of Moscow (1922); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics (1472) of Sts. Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), and Jonah (1461), Metropolitans of Kiev; Translation of the relics (1667) of Venerable Nilus of Stolobny Island (stylite of Seliger Lake) (1554); Repose of Blessed Zina of Vetluga (1960);
Martyr Maximus, under Decius (250); Martyr Isidore of Chios (251); Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Akolouthos (Acolouthus), martyred at the Church of St Irene (Holy Peace), near the sea in Constantinople; Martyrs Aristotle and Leandros; Hieromartyr Therapontus, Bishop of Cyprus (3rd c.); Saint Boniface of Tarsus, martyr (307); Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th c.); Martyrs Justa, Justina and Henedina, in Sardinia (c.130); Saint Pontius of Cimiez (Pons de Cimiez), martyred in Cimella (Cimiez) near Nice, whose relics gave his name to the town of Saint-Pons (ca.258); Saint Aprunculos (Apruncule), first bishop of Langres, later of Clermont, Gaul (ca. 488); Saint Boniface, Bishop of Ferentino in Tuscany (6th c.); Saint Carthage (Carthach Mochuda) the Younger, founder and first Abbot and Bishop of Lismore (637); Saint Erembert, Bishop of Toulouse (657); Saint Tuto (Totto), monk and Abbot of St Emmeram in Regensburg in Germany, where he later became bishop (930); Saint Hallvard of Norway, Of the royal family of Norway, Patron-saint of Oslo, martyr (1043); Saint Nicetas (Nikita), Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves (1108) (see also January 31 and April 30); Patriarch Leontius II of Jerusalem (1190); Saint Isidore of Rostov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1474) New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643); New Martyr John of Bulgaria (Raiko-John of Shumena), the goldsmith (1802); Saint Andrew, Abbot of Raphael (Tobolsk) (1820); New Hieromartyr Peter, priest (1939); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles (1609) of: Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery, and, Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas Monastery (Kostroma); Commemoration of Victor Chornayiv, Archimandrite of the Annunciation Monastery at Nizhyn (1761); Synaxis of the Yaroslavsk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God (1823); First uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783).
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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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