Saints

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  Ia of Persia

  Ia was a Christian woman — the Greek synaxarion remembers her as aged in years — who was seized with nine thousand fellow-Christians in the...

• Ibistion the Confessor

  Ibistion is an Egyptian ascetic whose entire surviving record is a single line of the Greek synaxarion — that he reposed in peace — together...

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  Ignatius of Antioch

  Ignatius the God-bearer (c. 35 – c. 107) was bishop of Antioch — the third to hold the see, after the Apostle Peter and Evodus — and, with P...

• Ignatius of Constantinople

  Ignatius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 798–877), born Nicetas, was a son of the emperor Michael I Rhangabe. Deposed and castrated as a bo...

• Ignatius of Lomsk

  Ignatius of Lomsk (†1591) was a Russian ascetic of the Vologda–Yaroslavl wilderness who, after monastic struggle in two of the great norther...

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  Ignatius of Rostov

  Ignatius (†1288) was bishop of Rostov for twenty-six years, in the second and third generations of the Mongol yoke, and is one of the very f...

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  Igor of Chernigov

  Igor Olgovich (†1147), of the princely house of Chernigov, held the throne of Kiev for a fortnight in 1146, was defeated and imprisoned, and...

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  Ilia Chavchavadze

  Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907) was the central figure of the Georgian national revival of the nineteenth century — poet, novelist, editor, hi...

• Illidius of Clermont

  Illidius (†c. 385) — Allyre in French — was the fourth bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, one of the earliest hierarchs of central Gaul of whom...

• Ina of Wessex and Ethelburga

  Ina (Ine) was king of the West Saxons from 688 to about 726, the lawgiver whose code is the oldest surviving from Wessex and the patron whom...

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  Inna, Pinna and Rimma

  Inna, Pinna and Rimma were three men of Scythia Minor — the lands about the lower Danube and the western shore of the Black Sea, in what is...

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  Innocent of Alaska

  Innocent (John Veniaminov, 1797–1879) was the great apostle of Orthodoxy in Alaska and the Russian Far East — a married priest of Siberia wh...

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  Innocent of Irkutsk

  Innocent of Irkutsk (c. 1680–1731), in the world John Kulchitsky, was the first bishop of the Siberian see of Irkutsk and is honoured as a w...

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  Innocent of Kherson

  Innocent (Borisov), Archbishop of Kherson and Taurida, was the most celebrated preacher of the Russian Church in the first half of the ninet...

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  Innocent of Komel

  Innocent of Komel (mid-15th century – 1521) was a Russian monastic saint of the northern forests, a disciple of Nilus of Sora and one of the...

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  The Holy Innocents

  The Holy Innocents are the male children of Bethlehem and its districts, two years old and under, whom Herod the Great ordered killed after...

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  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Irenaeus, second bishop of Lyons (Lugdunum in Gaul), is the greatest theologian of the second century and the hinge on which the memory of t...

• Irenaeus of Sirmium

  Irenaeus was the young bishop of Sirmium in Pannonia (the modern Sremska Mitrovica), martyred about the year 304 in the Great Persecution of...

• Irenaeus, Irene and Peregrinus

  Irenaeus, Irene and Peregrinus are three martyrs commemorated on May 5 who, according to the Latin martyrologies and the Greek synaxaristic...

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  Irenarchus of Rostov

  Irenarchus the Recluse (1548–1616) was a Russian ascetic of the Borisoglebsky (Saints Boris and Gleb) Monastery near Rostov, remembered for...

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  Irenarchus of Sebaste and the Seven Women

  Irenarchus was a young man of Sebaste in Armenia who, during the persecution of Diocletian, served the imprisoned and tortured Christians an...

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  Irenarchus of Solovki

  Irenarchus was igumen of the Solovki monastery in the White Sea from 1613 to 1626, in the years immediately after the Time of Troubles, and...

• Irene of Chrysovalantou

  Irene was a Cappadocian noblewoman of the ninth century who was summoned to Constantinople as a candidate for the hand of the young emperor...

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  Irene the Empress

  Irene the Empress (1088 – 13 August 1134) was born Piroska, daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary, and came to Constantinople at sixteen a...

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  Irene the Great Martyr

  Irene is the great-martyr whose long passion — a cycle of tortures survived, deliverances and repeated returns to preaching — made her one o...

• Isaac and Martin

  Isaac and Martin were martyrs known only from the brief notice of the Greek synaxarion for September 22, which transmits their names and the...

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  Isaac and Meletius of Cyprus

  Isaac (Isaacius) and Meletius were bishops of the Church of Cyprus, commemorated together on September 21. The synaxaria transmit their name...

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  Isaac of Dalmatia

  Isaac (died c. 383) was a Syrian ascetic who left the desert for the capital in the crisis year 378 in order to stand in the road before the...

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  Isaac of Optina

  Isaac (Antimonov) — Ivan in the world, the son of a Kursk merchant house — entered the Optina Hermitage in 1847 at thirty-seven, was formed...

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  Isaac the Recluse of the Kiev Caves

  Isaac (†c. 1090), born Chern, a wealthy merchant of Toropets in the Pskov land, gave away his goods and came to the Kiev Caves in the days o...

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  Isaac the Syrian

  Isaac the Syrian (c. 613 – c. 700), also called Isaac of Nineveh, was an East-Syriac monk and bishop whose Ascetical Homilies became one of...

• Isaac, Apollos and Quadratus

  Isaac, Apollos and Quadratus were officials of the court of Diocletian — pagans by upbringing and by office — who were converted by what the...

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  Isaiah of Rostov

  Isaiah was a monk of the Kiev Caves, tonsured by St Theodosius, who was set over the princely monastery of St Demetrius in Kiev and then, ab...

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  Isaiah the Prophet

  Isaiah son of Amoz is the first and greatest of the four Greater Prophets, and the Church has never been content to call him only a prophet:...

• Isaurus the Deacon and Companions

  Isaurus was a deacon of Athens who, with five companions — Basil, Innocent, Felix, Hermias and Peregrinus — left the city and came to Apollo...

• Isaurus, Basil, Innocent, Felix, Hermias and Peregrinus

  Six martyrs of the third century who carry the printed service of June 17 in the Greek Menaion — the day's chief commemoration in Greek use,...

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  Isidora of Tabenna

  Isidora is the first fool-for-Christ whose story the Church records — a nun of the great Pachomian women's monastery at Tabennisi in the Egy...

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  Isidore of Chios

  Isidore of Chios (†251) was an Egyptian of Alexandria serving as an officer of the imperial fleet when his squadron put in at Chios in the p...

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  Isidore of Pelusium

  Isidore of Pelusium (c. 360 – c. 449) was an Egyptian ascetic, priest, and abbot of a monastery on the mountain near Pelusium, at the easter...

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  Isidore of Rostov

  Isidore of Rostov (†1474), surnamed Tverdislov, "firm of word," is the German-born fool-for-Christ of the Russian north: a rich man's son fr...

• Martyrs of Iviron

  The Iberite venerable-martyrs are the Georgian and Greek monks of the Monastery of Iviron on Mount Athos who were put to death for refusing...