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Today's feasts March 15: Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain; (1st c.); Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303); Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275) Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305); Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalem; Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th c.); Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555); Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571); Saint Zacharias, Pope of Rome (752); Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859); Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk (Nizhni-Novgorod) (1603); New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792); Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805); New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Tver (1938); New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938); New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsk, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the earthquake of 1938. 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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