BEFORE THE COUNCIL
Following a recent article entitled ‘The Common Struggle of the
Whole Russian Church’, I have been asked to compile a calendar of
more recent confessors, saints and righteous, of both parts of the Russian
Church. In this way, their prayers can be sought during the Fourth All-Diaspora
Council in San Francisco, together with the better-known New Martyrs and
Confessors, already glorified by the whole Russian Church in 1981 and
2000.
All dates are given according to the Church calendar, therefore thirteen days must be added to find the date on the civil calendar. The dates in brackets after the names of the saints are the dates of their feasts and those after the names of the righteous are the dates of their repose. Saints already canonized are shown in bold. I would be grateful to receive corrections and additions to this list, which will surely be numerous.
1
January Archimandrite Mitrofan of Jordanville (1986)
5 January Hieroschemamonk Symeon of the Pskov Caves (1960)
6 January St Laurence of Chernigov (1950)
17 January Archimandrite Tikhon of Inkerman (1950)
19 January Schemanun Anatolia of Diveyevo (1949)
24 Nectarius, Bishop of Seattle
27 January Schemanun Margarita of Diveyevo (1997)
31 January Hieroschemamonk Stephen of Kislovodsk (1973)
5
February Abbess Agnes of Nizhni Novgorod (1954)
8 February Blessed Lyubov of Ryazan (1920)
10
February Archimandrite Nikandr of Lesna (1978)
11 February Simon, Archbishop of Shanghai and Beijing (1933)
13 February Archbishop Seraphim of Bulgaria (1950) (canonized locally)
14 February Righteous Barbara of Ufa (1966)
23 February Zinovy (in schema Seraphim), Metropolitan of Tetritskaro (1985)
4
March Schemanun Agnes of Karaganda (1976)
8 March Vitaly, Archbishop of Eastern America (1960)
9 March Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus of Kiev (1996)
13 March Tikhon, Bishop of Kirilov (1955)
17 March Tikhon, Archbishop of San Francisco (1963)
21 March St Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)
31
March Averky, Archbishop of Syracuse (1976)
5 April Igumen Philemon of Jordanville (1953)
6
April St Sebastian of Karaganda (1966)
6 April Archimandrite Seraphim of Rakitin (1982)
15 April Stephen, Bishop of Kaluga (1963)
17 April Hieroschemamonk Constantine of Ekaterinburg (1960)
19 April St Matrona the Blind of Moscow (1952)
22 April Athanasius of Oriol, Fool for Christ (1967)
22 April Catherine of Piukhtitsa, Fool-for-Christ (1968)
23 April Barnabas, Bishop of Nizhni-Novgorod (1963)
26 April Anastasius, Metropolitan of New York (1965)
26 April Schemanun Agnes of Akulovo (1984)
7
May Schemamonk Boris of Pskov (1969)
13 May Zipporah (Sepfora), Eldess of Kolikovo (1997)
27 May Zina of Vetluga (1960)
29 May St Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (1961)
6
June Raisa, Eldress of Serafimovich (1957)
6 June Schemanun Macaria of Temkino (1993)
8 June Theodore of Belozersk, Ascetic (1973)
14 June Metropolitan Tryphon (Turkestanov), Confessor (1934)
15 June, Innocent, Archbishop of Beijing (1931)
15 June Elder Cosmas of Riga (1968)
19 June, St John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)
14
July Schema-Abbot Sabbas of the Pskov Caves (1980)
17 July Tikhon of Sergiev Posad, Archpriest (1983)
28 July Antony, Metropolitan of Kiev (1936)
31 July Tavrion of Riga, Elder (1978)
3
August Hieroschemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)
7
August Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville (1988)
11
August Father Sampson of Moscow (1979)
11 August Elder Nikolai (Guryanov) (2002)
11
August Nicholas of Pskov, Archpriest (2002)
15
August Abbess Rufina of Shanghai (1937)
16 August Schema-Archimandrite Zosima (Sokur) (2002)
20 August Hieromonk Seraphim of California (1982)
20 August Archimandrite Spyridon of Kiev (1991)
25 August Abbot Nikon of Gzhatsk (1963)
31 August Schemanun Gabriela of Kiev (1992)
10
September Antony, Archbishop of San Francisco (2000)
23
Sept. Archimandrite Antony of Jordanville (1993)
2
October Schema-Archimandrite Alexander of the Pskov Caves (1998)
3 October Olga of St Petersburg, Fool-for-Christ (1960)
7 October St Jonah of Manchuria (1925)
12 October St Nicholas, Metropolitan of Alma Ata and Kazakhstan, Confessor
(1955)
15 October Athanasius, Bishop of Kovrov (1962)
17 October Nun Alypia of Goloseyevo, Fool-for-Christ (1988)
20 October John, Metropolitan of St Petersburg (1995)
22 October Nestor, Metropolitan of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk (1962)
25 October St Matrona of Diveyevo (1963)
30 October Archimandrite Boris of Tashkent (1971)
8
November Philaret, Metropolitan of New York (1985)
8 November Hieromonk Gabriel of Tbilisi (1995)
18 November Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly of Tbilisi (1992)
19 November St Alexis, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia (1947)
11
December St Kuksha of Odessa (1964)
19 December Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim of Glinsk and Sukhumi (1975)
21 December Schemamonk Michael of Harbin (1939)
23 December Schema-Archimandrite Basil of Carpatho-Russia (1997)
27 December Archimandrite Seraphim of the Pskov Caves (1993)
Fr Andrew
19 April/2 May 2006
St Matrona the Blind of Moscow,
Radonitsa
