Saints

Athanasius Filippovich, abbot of the monastery of St Symeon at Brest, was the most uncompromising Orthodox voice in the Polish–Lithuanian Co...

Athanasius, Bishop of Corinth, is a hierarch of the middle Byzantine period commemorated on May 4, of whom the synaxarion records only that...

Athanasius of Modon (9th century, †c. 885) was a hierarch of the Byzantine Peloponnese, remembered as a bishop of holy life and a worker of...

Athanasius (fifteenth century) was an abbot of the Murom (Muromsky) Monastery on Lake Onega — the house founded in the previous century by t...

Athanasius was bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia — the city of the Apostle Paul, and a metropolitan see of the Patriarchate of Antioch — in the mi...

Athanasius the Confessor (died 821) was a monk and abbot of the Paulopetrion monastery — the house "of Paul and Peter," near Nicomedia in Bi...

Athanasius the Great (c. 296 – 373) was Archbishop of Alexandria, the champion of the Nicene faith and, with Basil the Great, one of only tw...

Athanasius, called "the Resurrected One," was a monk of the Near (Antonian) Caves of Kiev in the twelfth century. After a long and grievous...

Athanasius the Wonderworker is a monastic saint of the Greek synaxaria, commemorated on June 3 and known from a single short synaxarion noti...

Athenagoras was a philosopher of Athens of the second century who, having studied the Platonism of his city, came to the faith and wrote in...

Athenodorus was a martyr of Syrian Mesopotamia who suffered in the last great persecution of Diocletian, about the year 304. Having embraced...

Athenogenes was a bishop — in the older and more precise notices a chorepiskopos, a country-bishop — of Pedachthoe, a small place in Armenia...

Attalus is a wonderworking ascetic commemorated by the Greek synaxaria on June 6, known only from the synaxarion notice for that day. It des...

Atticus and Sisinnius are two martyrs of whom the Greek synaxarion preserves nothing but the names, the day, and the manner of death: they w...

Augustine (†26 May 604 or 605) was the Roman monk whom Gregory the Dialogist sent from the monastery of St Andrew on the Caelian Hill to pre...

Augustine (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius in Roman North Africa, is the most consequential writer of the Latin Church: a provincial rhetor...

Autonomus (†c. 313) was a bishop in Italy who, when the great persecution broke out under Diocletian, crossed to Bithynia and made the villa...

Auxentius (late fourth century – c. 470) was a Syrian-born ascetic who rose from the imperial guard of Constantinople to become one of the m...

Auxentius the New Martyr (1690–1720) was a Greek craftsman and sailor of Constantinople who confessed Christ before the Ottoman authorities...

Auxibius (first century) was an apostolic-age bishop of Soli (Soloi), a city on the northern coast of Cyprus. Born at Rome of a distinguishe...

Azariah, son of Oded, is the Old-Testament prophet who, "the Spirit of God coming upon him," went out to meet King Asa of Judah as he return...