January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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January 23 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective January23 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus (312)January 23 / February 5 . Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κλήμης καὶ Ἀγαθάγγελος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Ascholius, Bishop of Thessaloniki (383)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀχόλιος Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Eusebius the Recluse of Mount Coryphe near Antioch (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐσέβιος. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Salamanes the Silent (Salamanes the Hesychast) of the Euphrates (c. 400)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σαλαμάνης ὁ Ἡσυχαστής. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Salamanēs the Silent of the Euphrates. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Mausimas the Syrian, Priest near Cyrrhus (before 423)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Μαϋσιμᾶς ὁ Σύρος . 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Mausimas the Syrian. OCA - Lives of the Saints. The Holy Two Martyrs of Parium, near Cyzicus and Lampsacus, in Asia MinorGreat Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο Μάρτυρες . 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 9.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Emerentiana, a martyr in Rome (305)January 23 . Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Amasius of Teano, Bishop of Teano in central Italy (356) Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)February 5 / January 23. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saints Severian and Aquila, a husband and wife martyred in Julia Caesarea in Mauritania in North Africa Saint Martyrius (Martory), a hermit in the Abruzzi in Italy (6th century) Saint Ormond (Armand), monk of the monastery of Saint Mairé in France, where he became abbot (6th century) Saint Ildefonsus (Alphonse, Alonzo), Archbishop of Toledo from 657 (667) Saint Colman of Lismore, Abbot of Lismore Abbey in Ireland and also a bishop (702) Saint Lufthild, a saint honoured near Cologne in Germany, where she lived as an anchoress (c. 850) Saint Maimbod (Mainboeuf), martyred by pagans while preaching to peasants near Kaltenbrunn in Alsace, now in France (c. 880)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Saint Dionysius of Olympus and Mount Athos (1541) Venerable Gennadius of Kostroma (1565)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεννάδιος ἐκ Λιθουανίας. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Gennadius of Kostroma. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich, Kostroma Oblast (16th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξανδρος ἐκ Ρωσίας . 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: March 27) Saint Barlaam, founder of Chikoisk Monastery, Siberia (1846)

New martyrs and confessors New Hieromartyr Seraphim Bulashov, Abbot of Holy Transfiguration Guslitsky Monastery (ru), Moscow (1938) 23 января (ст.ст.) 5 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). New Hieromartyr Anatolius Grisjuk, Bishop of Odessa (1938)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνατόλιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ὀδησσοῦ . 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Michael J. Walsh. A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West. Liturgical Press, 2007. p. 37. New Virgin Martyrs Eudokia and Ecaterine of Moscow (Ekaterine) (1938) New Virgin Martyr Militsa of Moscow (1938)

Other commemorations Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681)Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: September 14) Synaxis of the Saints of KostromaGreat Synaxaristes: Σύναξις πάντων τῶν ἐν Καστρόμᾳ τῆς Ρωσίας διαλαμψάντων Ἁγίων . 23 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Translation of the relics (1786) of Saint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)Translation of the relics of Saint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam Monastery (1881) Repose of Archimandrite John Krestiankin of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (2006)

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Sources January 23 / February 5. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). February 5 / January 23. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). January 23. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 9. January 23. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 23–24. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 33–34. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 23 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 23 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 5 февраля (23 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 23 января (ст.ст.) 5 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).