Saints

• Dada, Gabdelas and Casdoa

  Dada, Gabdelas and Casdoa were martyrs of fourth-century Persia under King Shapur II, whose long persecution made the Persian church a churc...

• Dalmatus of Constantinople

  Dalmatus (died about 440) was an officer of the imperial guard under Theodosius the Great who left the palace for the cell, entered the mona...

• Damaris of Athens

  Damaris of Athens (1st century) was the first woman of Athens to believe in Christ, converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul on the Ar...

• Damascene of Gabrovo

  Damascene the New (†1771) was a Bulgarian hieromonk of the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos, martyred at Svishtov on the Danube under the O...

• Damian of Esphigmenou

  Damian (thirteenth century, † c. 1280) was a hesychast of the Monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos, a disciple of the elder Cosmas who, a...

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  Damiane of Georgia

  Damiane was King Demetre I of Georgia (reigned 1125–1156), the son and successor of St David the Builder, who held together the great kingdo...

• Damon

  Damon is a hieromartyr known from a single manuscript. He is absent from the Synaxarion of Constantinople and from the printed Menaia; the o...

• Danax the Reader

  Danax was a reader (anagnostes) of the church at Auleon in the region of Illyria (Macedonia), martyred in the second century when a band of...

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  Daniel of Moscow

  Daniel of Moscow (1261–1303) was the first prince of Moscow and the progenitor of the line — the house of Daniel — from which came the Grand...

• Daniel of Sketis

  Daniel of Sketis was the great Egyptian elder of the sixth century, priest and hegumen of Sketis in the Nitrian desert, remembered less for...

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  Daniel the Prophet

  Daniel, of the royal seed of Judah, was carried to Babylon as a youth in the first deportation under Nebuchadnezzar (c. 605 BC) and rose to...

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  Daniel the Stylite

  Daniel the Stylite (c. 409–493) was the great pillar-saint of the Bosphorus and the foremost heir of Symeon the Stylite, whose leather mantl...

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  Dasius of Dorostorum

  Dasius was a Christian of Dorostorum on the lower Danube who was beheaded for Christ, by tradition on November 20 of about the year 303, in...

• David and Tarichan of Georgia

  David and Tarichan were two Georgian boys, the children of the nobleman Vardan and his wife Tagine, kinsfolk of the royal house, murdered in...

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  David of Hermopolis

  David of Hermopolis was the leader of a band of robbers in the Egyptian desert who, moved in old age to reckon with his crimes, forced his w...

• David of Saint Anne's Skete

  David was an Athonite monk of the Skete of Saint Anne who was hanged at Thessalonica on 26 June 1813 for confessing Christ before the Ottoma...

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  David of Thessalonica

  David the Dendrite is the most beloved of the ascetics of Thessalonica and one of the best documented of the tree-dwelling hermits of the Ch...

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  David the Builder

  David the Builder (c. 1073–1125), David IV of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the greatest of the kings of Georgia and is venerated by the Georg...

• Deiniol of Bangor

  Deiniol (Daniel) was the founder, abbot and first bishop of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the sixth century. The Welsh genealogies make...

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  Demetrius Donskoy

  Demetrius Ivanovich (12 October 1350 – 19 May 1389), Grand Prince of Moscow, is honoured by the Russian Church as a right-believing prince:...

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  Demetrius of Priluki

  Demetrius of Priluki (†1392) was a monastic founder of the Russian North and a friend and contemporary of Saint Sergius of Radonezh. Born to...

• Demetrius of Samarina

  Demetrius was a monk of Samarina, the high Vlach village of the Pindus in Epirus, who was tortured to death by Ali Pasha of Ioannina on 17 A...

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  Demetrius of Thessalonica

  Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer (†c. 306) is, with George, one of the two most beloved warrior-martyrs of the Christian East and the patron of...

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  Demetrius of Uglich

  Demetrius (Dimitry) Ivanovich, youngest son of Ivan IV the Terrible, was born at Moscow in 1582 and died at Uglich on 15 May 1591, aged eigh...

• Demetrius, Evanthia and Demetrian of Skepsis

  Demetrius, his wife Evanthia, and their son Demetrian were a family of the first century martyred together at Skepsis on the Hellespont. Dem...

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  Dimitry of Rostov

  Dimitry of Rostov (1651–1709), in the world Daniel Tuptalo, was Metropolitan of Rostov and the greatest churchman-scholar of the Russian Chu...

• Dinar of Hereti

  Dinar (Dinara) was the tenth-century queen of Hereti, the principality of south-eastern Georgia on the Alazani between Kakheti and the Cauca...

• Diodorus and Rhodopianus

  Diodorus and Rhodopianus were deacons of the church of Aphrodisias in Caria, on the south-western coastlands of Asia Minor, who were stoned...

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  Diodorus, Didymus and Diomedes of Laodicea

  Diodorus, Didymus and Diomedes were martyrs of Laodicea, natives of the city in which they suffered, put to death for Christ by scourging —...

• Diomedes and Laurence

  Diomedes and Laurence are two martyrs of whom the Church has kept the day, the manner of death, and nothing else. The Synaxarion of Constant...

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  Diomedes of Tarsus

  Diomedes was a physician of Tarsus in Cilicia who practised his art without fee and used the sickbed as a pulpit, healing bodies and preachi...

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  Dionysius of Glushitsa

  Dionysius of Glushitsa (1363–1437) was one of the great founders of the Northern Thebaid, the monastic wilderness of the Russian north. Born...

• Dionysius of Korisos

  Dionysius was a peasant's son from Korisos near Kastoria in western Macedonia who went young to the Holy Mountain, was formed there by his e...

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  Dionysius of Olympus

  Dionysius of Olympus (c. 1490s – 1541) was a Greek ascetic and monastic founder of the Ottoman period, remembered as a light of the enslaved...

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  Dionysius of Radonezh

  Dionysius (c. 1570 – 1633), in the world David Zobninovsky, was archimandrite of the Trinity–Saint Sergius Lavra from 1611 and, with Patriar...

• Dionysius of Suzdal

  Dionysius was the cave-dwelling founder of the Pechersky (Caves) monastery of the Ascension at Nizhny Novgorod, the teacher of a generation...

• Dionysius of Vatopedi

  Dionysius was a monk of the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos who was sent out in 1822 with the monastery's greatest treasure, the Holy Belt...

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  Dionysius of Zakynthos

  Dionysius (c. 1547–1622) was a nobleman of the Ionian island of Zakynthos who became a monk and then Archbishop of Aegina, but soon resigned...

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  Dionysius the Areopagite

  Dionysius the Areopagite (†c. 96) was the judge of the Athenian high court who believed at the Apostle Paul's sermon on the Areopagus (Acts...

• Dionysius the Rhetor and Metrophanes

  Two monks of the Monastery of Stoudios at Constantinople who came to the Holy Mountain at the turn of the sixteenth century in search of sti...

• Dios of Antioch

  Dios (Δῖος, "of Zeus" by the accident of a pagan name) was an Antiochene ascetic of the later fourth century who carried the discipline of t...

• Djan Darada the Ethiopian Eunuch

  The Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8 — the treasurer of Queen Candace, reading the prophet Isaiah in his chariot on the road down from Jerusalem t...

• Dodo of Gareji

  Dodo (†c. 623) was the first and closest disciple of David of Gareji, one of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers who established monasticism in the...

• Dometian of Melitene

  Dometian (c. 550 – 601) was Bishop of Melitene in Armenia Minor, a kinsman of the emperor Maurice and one of the most trusted churchmen and...

• Dometius of Dionysiou

  Dometius was a hieromonk of the Holy Mountain, the confidant and fellow-ascetic of Dionysius of Korisos, founder of the monastery of the Hon...

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  Dometius of Persia

  Dometius was a Persian by birth who came to faith in Christ through a Christian of his own household or acquaintance, and who — driven out b...

• Dometius of Philotheou

  Dometius, surnamed σημειοφόρος, "the sign-bearer" — the Greek epithet for an ascetic through whom God works signs — was a solitary of the Ho...

• Dometius the Wonderworker

  Dometius was a monastic saint of the fourth century, commemorated on March 8 and styled by the tradition a wonderworker. Very little is tran...

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  Domnica of Constantinople

  Domnica of Constantinople (fourth century – c. 474) was a venerable amma of the imperial city, remembered as a foundress of monastic life fo...

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  Domnina and her Daughters

  Domnina of Syria and her daughters Berenice and Prosdoce (†c. 302–306) were women of Antioch who, fleeing the Diocletianic persecution, were...