Saints

• John of Shumen

  John — called Raiko in Bulgarian, his lay name — was an eighteen-year-old goldsmith of Shumen in northern Bulgaria who was martyred on 14 Ma...

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  John of Suzdal

  John (†1373) was the first bishop of the restored see of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, consecrated about 1350, and is remembered as a hierarch...

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  John of Tobolsk

  John Maximovich (1651–1715) was Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia, the last of the great Kievan scholar-bishops of the seventeenth cen...

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  John of Uglich

  John of Uglich (c. 1477 – 19 May 1523) was a prince of the house of Moscow who spent thirty-two years in prison for no fault of his own and...

• John of Vlachia

  John of Vlachia (Ioan Valahul, 1644 – 1662) is the young martyr of Wallachia who suffered at Constantinople at the age of seventeen. Taken p...

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  John of Zedazeni

  John of Zedazeni was a Syrian monk, formed in the ascetic tradition of Antioch, who in the middle of the sixth century came into Georgia wit...

• John of the Ancient Caves

  John was a monk of the Old Lavra — the ancient cave-monastery of St Chariton in the wilderness of Judea near Jerusalem, called "the Ancient...

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  John the Almsgiver

  John the Almsgiver (c. 550–620), also called John the Merciful, was Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in the last decade of his life and the mos...

• John the Cappadocian

  John II, called the Cappadocian, was patriarch of Constantinople for less than two years — 17 April 518 to 19 February 520 — and in that tim...

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  John the Chozebite

  John the Chozebite (6th century) was an Egyptian of Thebes who became a hermit of the wild gorge of Choziba in the Judaean desert, between J...

• John the Clairvoyant

  John of Lycopolis (c. 305 – c. 394), called "the Clairvoyant" or "the Seer" for his gift of prophecy, was one of the most celebrated of the...

• John the Dwarf

  John the Dwarf (c. 339 – c. 409), called in Greek Kolobos ("the Short"), was one of the most renowned of the Desert Fathers of Egypt, an asc...

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  John the Faster

  John IV the Faster (†595) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 582 to 595: a goldsmith of the capital who rose through the diaconate of Hagi...

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  John the Fool-for-Christ of Ustyug

  John of Ustyug (†29 May 1494) is the second of the two great fools-for-Christ of Great Ustyug in the Russian north, and one of the purest ex...

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  John the Forerunner

  John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord — son of the priest Zachariah and the righteous Elizabeth, kinsman of Christ, desert ascetic, pr...

• John the Hairy of Rostov

  Blessed John, called the Hairy for the abundant hair he wore uncut and the Merciful for the healings at his grave, was a fool-for-Christ at...

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  John the Iberian

  John the Iberian — called in the Greek notices Varasvatse, in Georgian Ioane Mtatsmindeli, "John of the Holy Mountain" — was a Georgian magn...

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  John the Long-suffering of the Kiev Caves

  John the Long-suffering (†18 July 1160) was a recluse of the Near Caves of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev whose whole ascetic life was o...

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  John the New of Suceava

  John the New (c. 1300 – c. 1330/1332) was a Greek merchant of Trebizond who was tortured to death at Cetatea Albă — the Asprokastron of the...

• John the Recluse of Svyatogorsk

  John the Recluse (born Ivan Kryukov at Kursk, 20 September 1795; †11 August 1867) was the great ascetic of the Svyatogorsk monastery on the...

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  John the Russian

  John the Russian (c. 1690–1730) was a Ukrainian soldier of the army of Peter the Great who was taken prisoner by the Tatars in the Pruth cam...

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  John the Silent

  John the Silent, called the Hesychast (c. 454–558), was a bishop who became a hidden monk. Consecrated Bishop of Colonia in Armenia while st...

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  John the Soldier

  John was a soldier of the imperial army under Julian the Apostate (361–363), enrolled in a detachment sent to hunt down Christians — and he...

• John the Solitary of Jerusalem

  John the Solitary was a hermit of the sixth century who lived in a cave in the wilderness near Jerusalem, owning nothing but an icon of the...

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  John the Theologian

  John the Theologian (died at Ephesus early in the second century) is the apostle and evangelist whom the Gospel calls "the disciple whom Jes...

• John, Disciple of Gregory of Decapolis

  John was the disciple, fellow-ascetic and spiritual son of St Gregory of Decapolis, and shared his master's labours and sufferings for the h...

• John, Heraclemon, Andrew and Theophilus of Egypt

  John, Heraclemon, Andrew and Theophilus were four young hermits of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, known from the Life of Onuphri...

• Jonah and Barachisius

  Jonah and Barachisius were brothers and monks of Persia who, during the long persecution of the Christians under the Sassanid king Shapur II...

• Jonah of Klimetzk

  Jonah of Klimetzk, in the world John, of the Novgorod merchant family of the Klementievs, was caught by a storm on Lake Onega in 1490 while...

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  Jonah of Moscow

  Jonah (†1461) was the last Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia to be styled by the old title and the first to be consecrated in Moscow by Ru...

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  Jonah the Presbyter

  Jonah the Presbyter (ninth century), called the Sabbaite, was a married priest of Palestine who, after the death of his wife, ended his days...

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  Jonah the Prophet

  Jonah son of Amittai, of Gath-hepher in Galilee, prophesied in Israel in the eighth century before Christ and is the central figure of the B...

• Joseph and Pior

  Two of the disciples of Anthony the Great, commemorated together on June 17. Of Joseph the calendars transmit nothing but the name. Pior is...

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  Joseph of Arimathea

  Joseph of Arimathea is the rich and noble counsellor — εὐσχήμων βουλευτής — who alone of the Sanhedrin refused to consent to the condemnatio...

• Joseph of Astrakhan

  Joseph (1579–1671) was the first Metropolitan of Astrakhan, a native of that frontier city on the lower Volga who entered monastic life ther...

• Joseph of Damascus

  Joseph of Damascus (1793–1860) is the great new martyr of the Church of Antioch in modern times: a parish priest and schoolmaster of Damascu...

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  Joseph of Optina

  Joseph of Optina (1837–1911), in the world Ivan Litovkin, was the closest disciple of Ambrose of Optina and his successor in the eldership....

• Joseph of Thessalonica

  Joseph the Confessor (c. 762 – c. 832) was Archbishop of Thessalonica, the younger brother of Theodore the Studite and, with him, a leading...

• Joseph the Hymnographer

  Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 816–886) was the most prolific poet of the Byzantine Church — the author of many hundreds of liturgical canons t...

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  Joseph the Sanctified of Samakos

  Joseph the Sanctified (c. 1440 – 1511), surnamed Samakos, was a Cretan hieromonk of the last generation before the Ottoman conquest of the i...

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  Joshua son of Nun

  Joshua son of Nun (in the Greek of the Septuagint and the Byzantine service books, "Jesus son of Nave") was the servant and successor of Mos...

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  Jude the Apostle

  Jude — called also Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus, and in the Gospel lists simply "Jude of James" — is one of the Twelve, and in the Eastern traditi...

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  Julia of Carthage

  Julia was a Christian girl of a good family of Carthage who lost everything in the sack of her city by barbarians, was sold into slavery, an...

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  Julian and Basilissa

  Julian and Basilissa were a married couple of Antinoë in Egypt who, by mutual consent, lived together in perpetual virginity and, on the dea...

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  Julian and Caesarius of Terracina

  Julian the presbyter and Caesarius the deacon were martyred together at Terracina on the coast of Italy south of Rome — the Byzantine calend...

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  Julian of Anazarbus

  Julian (†c. 305) was a martyr of Cilicia, in the south-east of Asia Minor — a young man of senatorial family from Anazarbus who confessed Ch...

• Julian of Dalmatia

  Julian was a young Christian of Dalmatia who came into the Italian province of Campania during the persecution conducted there by the govern...

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  Julian of Emesa

  Julian (†c. 284) was a young Christian physician of Emesa in Syria (modern Homs), martyred for the faith in the persecutions of the late thi...

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  Julian of Galatia and his Forty Companions

  Julian was a priest of Galatia in the fourth century who, in time of persecution, hid in a cave near Ancyra with forty companions and contin...

• Julian of Le Mans

  Julian is honoured as the first bishop of Cenomanis — Le Mans, on the Sarthe in what is now western France — and as the apostle of the Cenom...