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August 13 2026:

Apodosis of the Transfiguration; Saint Maximus the Confessor; Saint Tikhon (Tychon), Bishop of Voronezh, Wonder-worker of Zadonsk and All Russia; Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and those with him: Martyrs Concordia, Irenaeus, and Abundius; Empress Irene, tonsured Xenia; Saint Eudocia the Empress, wife of St. Theodosius the Younger; Saint Serid, Abbot of Gaza; New-Martyrs Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd, Archimandrite Sergius, and those with them; Saint Abba Dorotheus of Gaza; Martyr Coronatus; Saint Wigbert, Abbot of Fritzlar; Saint Radegunde, Abbess of Poitiers and Queen of France; Martyr Cassian of Imola; opening of the relics of Saint Maximus of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ; Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Passion," "of the Seven Arrows" and at Minsk. Other events: repose of Valaam Schemamonk Timothy of Mount Athos

( July 31 2026: Julian Calendar )

Forefeast of the Procession of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord; Righteous Eudokimos of Cappadocia; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea; Martyr Julitta at Caesarea (see also July 29); Saint Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre; Hieromartyr Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdovsk, and Martyrs Sergius the Archimandrite, Yuri and John, laymen, of Petrograd; Saint Arsenius, Bishop of Ninotsminda; Saint Neot, Abbot of Neotstoke; Saint Maughold, Bishop of the Isle of Man; twelve martyrs of Rome. Other events: consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of Blachernae; translation of the relics of Apostle Philip to Cyprus; repose of Elder Gerasimos the Younger of Kaluga's St. Sergius Skete

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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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