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June 28 2026:

Saints Sergius and Herman, Abbots and Wonder-workers of Valaam; Saint Paul the Physician of Corinth; Saint Xenophon, Abbot of Robeika (Novgorod); Martyr Pappias; Martyr Macedonius; Saint Vulkian, monk; Saint Moses the Anchorite; two children crucified for Christ; Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya; three martyrs of Galatia; 70 Martyrs of Scythopolis; Saint Magnus, monk who reposed while praying to the Lord; Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the Monastery of the Theotokos called Nikitiatus in Nicomedia; Saint Austell, monk of Saint-Meen; translation of the relics of the Holy and Wonder-working Unmercenaries Cyrus and John (see January 31)

( June 15 2026: Julian Calendar )

Prophet Amos; Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow; Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania; Martyr Doulas of Cilicia; Saint Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium; Saint Doulas the Passion-bearer of Egypt; Great-martyr Lazarus (or Lazar), prince of Serbia; Saint Orsiesius of Tabenna, disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great; Blessed Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Saints Gregory and Cassian, Abbots of Avnezhk (Vologda); Saint Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev; Saint Symeon, Archbishop of Novgorod; Saint Ephraim the Bulgarian, Patriarch of Serbia; Martyr Leonis (Leonida) of Syria; Saint Abraham, Abbot of Auvergne (Gaul); Apostles Fortunatus, Achaicus, and Stephen; Martyr Grace; Saint Joseph, monk of Bethlehem; Saint Trillo, Abbot of Llandrillo; Martyr Nerses; Saint Edburga, nun of Winchester; repose of Jonah, Fool-for-Christ of Peshnosha Monastery; translation of the relics of Saint Theodore the Sykeote; translation of the relics of Saint Pachomios the Great

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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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