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Today's feasts February 4 2026: Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple; Venerable Isidore of Pelusium, monk; Saint Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion; New-Martyr Joseph of Aleppo; Saint George, prince of Vladimir; Saint Cyril, Abbot and Wonder-worker of Novoezersk (Novgorod); Martyr Jadorus; Hieromartyr Abramius, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria; Saint John, Bishop of Hirenopolis, one of the 318 fathers of Nicaea; Saints Abraham and Coprius, monks of Pechenga (Vologda); Martyr Theoctistus; Saint Jasim the Wonder-worker; Saint Evagrisi, disciple of St. Shio; Saint Theodosios the Righteous; Saint Modan, Abbot of Stirling and Falkirk; repose of royal Recluse Dosithea of Moscow ( January 22 2026: Julian Calendar ) Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles (ca. 96); Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian (628); 377 martyrs in Bulgaria, including: bishops Manuel, George, Peter, and Leontius, presbyters Sionius, Gabriel, John, Leontius, and Parodus; Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa), in Valencia under Diocletian (304); Martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, near Gerona in Spain (305); Saint Vincent of Digne, Bishop of Digne in France (380); Saint Blaesilla, a daughter of St Paula (383); Saint Gaudentius of Novara, Bishop of Novara and Confessor (417); Saint Wendreda, Virgin of March, Cambridgeshire (7th century); Saint Dominic of Sora, founder of several monasteries, renowned for miracles (1031); Saint Brithwald of Wilton (Bertwald of Ramsbury), Bishop of Ramsbury (1045); Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th century); Venerable Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511); Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Zhabyn (Belev), Wonder-worker (1623); Saint Ioasaph (Bolotov), Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799) New Hieromartyrs John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John (1938); New Hieromartyrs John Uspensky and Euthymius Tikhonravov, Priests (1938); Other Commemorations: Finding of the Holy Icon of "Panagia Eleistria" in Koroni, Messenia (1897). 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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