Saints

• Gabriel I of Serbia

  Gabriel Rajić, Patriarch of Peć in the middle of the seventeenth century, is the one member of the Serbian synaxis of August 30 who died a m...

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  Gabriel the Iberian

  Gabriel was a Georgian ascetic of Mount Athos, a monk of great simplicity who lived in a cave in the high ground above the boundary between...

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  Galacteon and Episteme

  Galacteon and Episteme were a young married couple of Emesa in Syria, martyred around the year 253 in the persecution under the governor Sec...

• Galacteon, Juliana and Saturninus

  Three martyrs of Constantinople whom the synaxaria join on June 22 and of whom they transmit almost nothing but the manner of their deaths:...

• Gamaliel the Elder

  Gamaliel — Rabban Gamaliel the Elder, grandson of Hillel and the most honoured teacher of the Law in Jerusalem in his generation — is the Ph...

• Gelasius of Rimet

  Gelasius of Rimet (Râmeț) is the fourteenth-century abbot and hierarch whose name is cut into the wall of a small stone church in the Trască...

• Gelasius the Martyr

  Gelasius is a martyr of one of the general persecutions, commemorated on June 6 and known from the synaxarion notice alone. Before he suffer...

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  Gemellus of Paphlagonia

  Gemellus was a Christian of Paphlagonia who, about the year 361, openly rebuked the emperor Julian the Apostate for his renunciation of Chri...

• Genevieve of Paris

  Genevieve (c. 422 – c. 512) is the great ascetic patroness of Paris, a consecrated virgin of the fifth-century Gallo-Roman Church who is ven...

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  Gennadius I of Constantinople

  Gennadius was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 458 to 471, in the reign of Leo I the Great, in the difficult generation after Cha...

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  Gennadius of Kostroma

  Gennadius of Kostroma and Liubimograd (early sixteenth century – 1565) was a Russian monastic founder, a disciple of Cornelius of Komel and,...

• George I of Constantinople

  George I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from November 679 until his death in January 686, and he is the patriarch of the capital...

• George Limniotes

  George, surnamed Limniotes — "of the Lake" — was a monk of the holy mountain of Olympus in Bithynia, the great monastic massif across the wa...

• George of Amastris

  George (c. 750 – c. 807) was Bishop of Amastris, the port-city of Paphlagonia on the southern shore of the Black Sea, and one of the shepher...

• George of Maleon

  George was an ascetic and wonderworker of Mount Maleon (Malea), the great monastic promontory at the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese, w...

• George of Mitylene

  George the Confessor was bishop of Mitylene on Lesbos in the last phase of the iconoclast struggle, holding the see in the years around 820–...

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  George of Mytilene

  George the Confessor was bishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, a wonderworker and almsgiv...

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  George of Vladimir

  George (Yuri) Vsevolodovich (1189–1238) was Great Prince of Vladimir and the central figure of the Russian resistance to the Mongol invasion...

• George the Chozebite

  George the Chozebite (mid-sixth century – c. 625) was one of the great ascetics of the Judean desert, abbot of the Monastery of Choziba in t...

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  George the Great Martyr

  George the Trophy-bearer (†303) is the most universally venerated of the martyrs of the East, honoured from Ethiopia to England as Μεγαλομάρ...

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  George the Hagiorite

  George the Hagiorite — Giorgi Mtatsmindeli, "George of the Holy Mountain" — was the greatest of the Georgian translators, abbot of the Monas...

• George the Iberian

  George the Iberian was the Georgian monk who was elected abbot of the Monastery of the Iberians (Iviron) on Mount Athos after Euthymius the...

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  George the New of Sofia

  George the New (c. 1497 – 1515), called also George of Kratovo, was a young Christian goldsmith burned alive at Sofia (the Byzantine Sredets...

• George the Recluse of the Black Mountain

  George the God-bearer (died 1068) was a Georgian ascetic of the Black Mountain above Antioch, the great cosmopolitan monastic massif of the...

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  Gerasim of Vologda

  Gerasim of Vologda (early 12th century – 1178) is honoured as the first monastic founder and wonderworker of the Vologda land in the Russian...

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  Gerasimus of Boldino

  Gerasimus (1490–1554) was the great monastic coloniser of the Smolensk lands. Born at Pereslavl-Zalessky, he attached himself at thirteen to...

• Gerasimus of Cephalonia

  Gerasimus of Cephalonia (c. 1509–1579) is the great saint and heavenly patron of the Ionian island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia). Born to the no...

• Gerasimus of Karpenisi

  Gerasimus the New (c. 1787 – 3 July 1812) was a new venerable-martyr of the last Ottoman generation, born George at Megalo Chorio in the mou...

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  Gerasimus of the Jordan

  Gerasimus of the Jordan (early 5th century – 475) is one of the great fathers of the Palestinian desert, the founder of a celebrated lavra i...

• Gerasimus, Pitirim and Jonah of Perm

  Gerasimus, Pitirim and Jonah were three successive bishops of Great Perm, seated at Ust-Vym on the Vychegda, who in the fifteenth century ca...

• Germanus of Auxerre

  Germanus was a Gallo-Roman advocate and provincial governor who was seized by his own city, tonsured against his will and made bishop of Aux...

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  Germanus of Constantinople

  Germanus (c. 634/640 – c. 740) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730 and the first great confessor of the holy icons. Son of a pat...

• Germanus of Paris

  Germanus (c. 496–576) was bishop of Paris for the last twenty years of his life and the most respected churchman in the Frankish kingdoms of...

• Gerontios of Saint Anna's Skete

  Gerontios was the abbot of Bouleuteria, one of the small ancient monasteries of the Holy Mountain, which stood exposed on the coast and was...

• Gerontius and the Martyrs of David-Gareji

  In the summer of 1851 a raiding party of Dagestanis fell upon the ancient cave-monastery of David-Gareji in the semi-desert of Kakheti, plun...

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  Gertrude of Nivelles

  Gertrude of Nivelles (c. 626–659) was a Frankish abbess of the seventh century and a saint of the undivided Western Church, kept on March 17...

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  Glaphyra the Virgin

  Glaphyra was a Christian virgin of the imperial household at Nicomedia, a maidservant of the empress Constantia, wife of Licinius and half-s...

• Gleb of Vladimir

  Gleb Andreevich (c. 1155–1174), baptised George, was the younger son of the Grand Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky of Vladimir. He is one of the ve...

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  Glyceria of Heraclea

  Glyceria was a young noblewoman of Trajanopolis in Thrace, daughter of a man named Macarius who had held the rank of consul, who came to the...

• Glykeria of Novgorod

  Glykeria was a maiden of Great Novgorod, daughter of Panteleimon, an official of Legoshcha Street, who reposed about the year 1522 and was b...

• Golinduc of Persia

  Golinduc was a Persian noblewoman, the wife of the chief magus of the Sasanian court, who was converted by a vision, baptised with the name...

• Gorazd, Sabbas and Angelar

  Gorazd, Sabbas and Angelar are three of the five chief disciples of Cyril and Methodius who carried the Slavonic letters and liturgy out of...

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  Gordius of Caesarea

  Gordius (†c. 320) was a soldier-martyr of Caesarea in Cappadocia, a centurion of the Roman army who, when the persecution of the Christians...

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  Gorgonia

  Gorgonia (c. 325 – c. 372) was the elder sister of Gregory the Theologian and the daughter of the holy parents Gregory the Elder, bishop of...

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  Gregory Palamas

  Gregory Palamas (c. 1296–1359), Archbishop of Thessalonica, is the great theologian of the Orthodox spiritual tradition and the defender of...

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  Gregory V of Constantinople

  Gregory V (1746–1821) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times over, a reforming and deeply pastoral hierarch, and — at the ou...

• Gregory and Cassian of Avnezh

  Gregory and Cassian were ascetics of the Vologda forest country who founded a monastery of the Holy Trinity at Avnezh, on the waters of the...

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  Gregory of Agrigentum

  Gregory of Agrigentum (Akragas) was a Sicilian-born bishop and biblical exegete of the sixth century, venerated as a hierarch and wonderwork...

• Gregory of Crete

  Gregory of Crete (760 – c. 820) was a monk of the iconoclast age whose long wandering carried him from his native island through Seleucia, J...

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  Gregory of Decapolis

  Gregory the Decapolite (c. 780–c. 842) was one of the great wandering ascetics of the age of the second iconoclasm, a monk of the Decapolis...