Saints
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Jacob Netsvetov
Jacob Netsvetov (1802–1864) was the first native Alaskan ordained to the Orthodox priesthood — the son of a Russian company worker from Tobo...
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Jacob the Confessor
Jacob (James) the Confessor was a monk from his youth who, raised to the episcopate, endured imprisonment, hunger and exile for the venerati...
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James of NisibisJames of Nisibis (†c. 350) was the first known bishop of Nisibis, the great Roman frontier-city on the edge of the Persian empire, and one o...
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James son of AlphaeusJames the son of Alphaeus is one of the Twelve Apostles, named in all four New Testament lists of the Twelve and otherwise nowhere singled o...
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James the Ascetic
James the Ascetic (6th century), also called James the Faster, was a hermit near Porphyreon on the Phoenician coast whose life the Church ho...
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James the Brother of the LordJames the Brother of the Lord (died c. 62) — styled by the Greek Church Adelphotheos, "Brother of God," and by the whole tradition "James th...
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James the Hermit of Syria
James the Hermit of Syria was a solitary of the fifth century who struggled on a mountain near Cyrrhus in northern Syria, a disciple of the...
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James the PersianJames the Persian (died c. 421), surnamed Intercisus — "the sawn-asunder" or "cut to pieces" — is among the most venerated of the Persian ma...
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James the Son of ZebedeeJames the son of Zebedee is one of the Twelve, the elder brother of John the Theologian, and — with his brother and with Peter — one of the...
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Januarius of BeneventoJanuarius, Bishop of Benevento in Campania, was beheaded near Pozzuoli about the year 305, in the persecution of Diocletian, together with a...
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Jason and SosipaterJason and Sosipater are two apostles of the Seventy, disciples and kinsmen of the Apostle Paul, whom the Church honours together as the enli...
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Jeremiah the ProphetJeremiah is the second of the four Greater Prophets, the priest of Anathoth who was called as a boy in the thirteenth year of Josiah and pro...
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Jerome of StridonJerome (c. 347–419/420) was a Dalmatian-born scholar, ascetic and presbyter who gave the Latin West its Bible. Educated at Rome, baptised th...
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Joachim and AnnaJoachim and Anna were the parents of the Most Holy Theotokos and the grandparents of Christ according to the flesh, honoured by the Church w...
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Joachim of OsogovoJoachim of Osogovo (†16 August 1105) is one of the four great hermit-saints of the Bulgarian and Macedonian lands — with John of Rila, Proho...
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Joanna the Myrrhbearer
Joanna was the wife of Chuza, the steward of Herod Antipas, and one of the women who followed Christ from Galilee, supported His ministry ou...
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Joannicius I of Serbia
Joannicius (†1349) carried the Serbian Church across its great threshold: a chancery man — logothete (secretary) at the court of the Serbian...
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Joannicius of Devič
Joannicius (Serbian Joanikije, popularly Janićije) was a Serbian hermit of the first half of the fifteenth century who withdrew from the wor...
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Joannicius the GreatJoannicius the Great (c. 752–846) was the foremost monastic saint of ninth-century Bithynia, an ascetic of Mount Olympus whose seventy years...
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Joasaph of BelgorodJoasaph of Belgorod (1705–1754), born Joachim Gorlenko of a noble Ukrainian family, was a monk and bishop of the Russian Church renowned for...
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Joasaph of MoscowJoasaph (Skripitsyn), Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' from 1539 to 1542, was hegumen of the Trinity-Sergius monastery, godfather at the...
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Job of AnzerskJob of Anzersk (c. 1635–1720), in the great schema named Jesus (Iisus), was a Russian ascetic of the far North, founder of the Golgotha-Cruc...
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Job of MoscowJob was the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, raised to that dignity in 1589 by Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople, and the las...
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Job of PochaevJob of Pochaev (c. 1551–1651) was for more than half a century the abbot of the monastery on the hill of Pochaev in Volhynia and the foremos...
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Job of UshchelskJob was a hieromonk of Solovki sent in 1614 into the wilderness of the Mezen, in the far north of Russia, to plant a monastery among a scatt...
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Job the Long-sufferingJob, called by the Church the Long-suffering (ὁ πολύαθλος, "of many contests"), is the righteous man of the land of Uz — blameless, upright,...
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Joel the ProphetJoel son of Pethuel, whose name means "the LORD is God," is the second of the Twelve Minor Prophets and the author of the book that bears hi...
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John ChrysostomJohn Chrysostom (c. 347–407) is the golden-mouthed preacher of Antioch and Archbishop of Constantinople, reckoned with Basil the Great and G...
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John ClimacusJohn Climacus (c. 579 – c. 649) — "John of the Ladder" — was a monk of Mount Sinai who, after forty years of hidden ascetic labour, was made...
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John Jacob the Chozebite
John Jacob was a Romanian hermit of the Judaean desert, one of the last representatives of the ancient anchoritic life of Palestine and the...
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John Kalfa
John Kalfa (†1575) was a new-martyr of Constantinople under the Ottoman yoke: a Christian woodworker and cabinetmaker — kalfa, the Turkish b...
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John KalyvitesJohn Kalyvites — "the Hut-dweller" (c. 450) — was the only son of a wealthy senatorial family of Constantinople who, seized in boyhood by th...
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John KochurovJohn Kochurov (1871–1917), archpriest, was a missionary of the American land before he was the first priest-martyr of the Russian revolution...
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John KoukouzelisJohn Koukouzelis (13th–14th century) was the greatest singer and composer of the Byzantine world after the age of the ancient hymnographers:...
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John Mark of the SeventyThe apostle Mark of the Seventy, "also called John" — the John Mark of the Acts of the Apostles — was a Jerusalem Christian of the first gen...
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John Psychaites
John, called Psychaites from the monastery in which he lived, was a monk of the Lavra of Psicha near Constantinople in the last years of the...
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John Scholasticus
John Scholasticus (early sixth century – 577) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 565 to 577 and one of the founders of Byzantine canon law...
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John TornikeJohn-Tornike was the Georgian general Tornike Eristavi, a commander and counsellor of David III Kuropalates of Tao, who laid down his rank t...
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John V of Constantinople
John V was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from November 669 to his death in August 675, in the reign of Constantine IV Pogonatus. Hi...
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John Vladimir of SerbiaJohn Vladimir (c. 990 – 22 May 1016) was prince of Dioclea — Duklja, the Serbian principality on the Adriatic that lay where Montenegro and...
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John and Jacob of Meniugi
Two small brothers of a peasant household in the Novgorod land — John, aged about five, and Jacob, aged about three — who died together abou...
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John and Longinus of YarengaTwo men of the White Sea coast — John and Longinus — of whom nothing whatever is transmitted except how they died and what happened afterwar...
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John of Beverley
John of Beverley († 7 May 721) was a Northumbrian monk and hierarch, trained at Canterbury under Archbishop Theodore and in the monastery of...
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John of DamascusJohn of Damascus (c. 675/676–c. 749) is the last of the Greek Fathers of the Church and her greatest theologian-hymnographer: an Arab Christ...
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John of Gothia
John, bishop of the Goths of the Crimea, is one of the very few named figures through whom the history of the Gothic Church in the Crimea ca...
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John of Kathara
John the Confessor, abbot of the monastery τῶν Καθαρῶν, "of the Pure," was one of the iconodule superiors broken by the second iconoclasm of...
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John of KronstadtJohn of Kronstadt (1829–1908) was the most celebrated Russian pastor of his age — a married parish priest of the naval city of Kronstadt, ne...
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John of Monagria
John was abbot of the monastery of Monagria, and was put to death by being sewn into a sack and thrown into the sea — the standard penalty o...
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John of MoscowBlessed John (died 1589), called Bolshoi Kolpak, "Big-Cap," was a fool-for-Christ of the reign of Theodore Ioannovich and the regency of Bor...
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John of RilaJohn of Rila (c. 876–946) is the greatest of the Bulgarian saints: the shepherd of Skrino who fled into the Rila wilderness, lived in a holl...