Saints

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  Nicholas the Wonderworker

  Nicholas the Wonderworker (c. 270 – c. 343), Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, is among the most beloved saints of the whole Christian world, hon...

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  Nicodemus of Serbia

  Nicodemus (†1324) was Archbishop of Peć and of all the Serbian lands from 1317 to his death, an Athonite monk of Hilandar before his elevati...

• Nicodemus of Vatopedi

  Nicodemus of Vatopedi (†c. 1319–1322) was an ascetic of the Holy Mountain, remembered chiefly because it was he who received the young Grego...

• Nicodemus the Albanian

  Nicodemus (†11 July 1722) was a Christian of Vithkuq in southern Albania who, wanting a fourth marriage the canons would not give him, apost...

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  Nicodemus the Righteous

  Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, a member of the Sanhedrin, who came to Jesus by night to ask about the Kingdom and receive...

• Nicon of Sicily

  Nicon was a soldier of Neapolis (Naples) in the third century — the son of a Christian mother and a pagan father — who was converted and bap...

• Nicon of the Kiev Caves

  Nicon, surnamed "the Dry" (Sukhoi), was a monk of the Kiev Caves monastery who was carried off captive during a Polovtsian (Cuman) raid, hel...

• Martyrs of Niculitsel

  Four martyrs of Scythia Minor — Zoticus, Attalus, Camasis and Philip — beheaded by the Roman authorities of Noviodunum on the lower Danube a...

• Nikephoros the Hesychast

  Nikephoros the Hesychast (†before 1300) was an Italian by birth and a Latin by upbringing who came to the Byzantine East, embraced Orthodoxy...

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  Nikitas of Novgorod

  Nikitas of Novgorod (†1108) was a monk of the Kiev Caves who became one of the most instructive figures in the Russian ascetic tradition: a...

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  Nikodemos of Kozheozero

  Nikodemos (in the world Nikitas, c. 1550s – 3 July 1640) was a peasant's son from near Rostov who was called by name out of a field as a boy...

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  Nikodemos the Hagiorite

  Nikodemos the Hagiorite (1749–1809) was a monk of the Holy Mountain and the most consequential Orthodox writer and editor of the modern peri...

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  Nikolai of Zhicha

  Nikolai Velimirović (1880/81 – 1956), Bishop of Ohrid and of Žiča, was the most celebrated Serbian churchman of the twentieth century — prea...

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  Nikon Metanoeite

  Nikon Metanoeite (c. 930–998) — "Preach Repentance" — was the great missionary monk of the tenth-century Byzantine world, whose whole preach...

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  Nikon of Optina

  Nikon (Belyaev) was the last of the elders of Optina. A Moscow merchant's son who entered the hermitage at eighteen and became the cell-atte...

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  Nikon of Radonezh

  Nikon of Radonezh (c. 1352–1426) was the disciple, chosen successor, and second abbot of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the foremost monastery o...

• Nilus of Erikoussa

  Nilus the Erikousian was a prince of the house of Laskaris who became a monk, a wanderer and at last a founder. Born at Constantinople as Ni...

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  Nilus of Sora

  Nilus of Sora (c. 1433–1508), called in Russian Nil Sorsky, is the greatest representative of the contemplative tradition in the Russian Chu...

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  Nilus of Stolobny

  Nilus of Stolobny (died 1554) was one of the great hermit-ascetics of northern Russia, who spent twenty-six years in absolute solitude on a...

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  Nilus the Faster

  Nilus the Faster (died c. 430), also called Nilus the Ascetic and, in the later tradition, Nilus of Sinai, is one of the most prolific ascet...

• Nilus the Myrrh-gusher

  Nilus the Myrrh-gusher (c. 1601–1651) was a Greek hieromonk of Mount Athos who ended his life as a solitary in a nearly inaccessible cave on...

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  Nina of Georgia

  Nina (Nino, c. 280 – c. 335) is the Enlightener of Georgia, the Equal-to-the-Apostles whose preaching converted the kingdom of Iberia (easte...

• Nine Kherkheulidze Brothers and the Martyrs of Marabda

  On 1 July 1625, on the field of Marabda in Kvemo Kartli, a Georgian army of some twenty thousand under King Teimuraz I and Giorgi Saakadze m...

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  Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus

  Nine Christians of differing rank and trade — Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius and Philemon —...

• Nine Martyrs of Perge

  Nine countrymen of Perge in Pamphylia — Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Mnesitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus and Eucleus — eight of t...

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  Ninety-nine Fathers of Crete

  The Ninety-nine Holy Fathers were ascetics of the island of Crete, commemorated together on October 7. The synaxarion transmits no date and...

• Ninian of Whithorn

  Ninian (Latin Nynia; in Scotland Ringan, in northern England Trynnian) is the first named apostle of what is now Scotland: a Briton, instruc...

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  Niphon II of Constantinople

  Niphon II (born Nicholas in the Morea, c. 1435–40; †11 August 1508) was three times elected Ecumenical Patriarch in the first generation of...

• Niphon of Athos

  Niphon, a priest's son from the Epirot village of Loukovo, was a monk of the Holy Mountain in the fourteenth century and one of the small co...

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  Nonna

  Nonna was the mother of Gregory the Theologian, and the head — under God, and by her own praying — of the most extraordinary household of sa...

• Nymphas and Eubulus

  Nymphas and Eubulus were two of the Seventy Apostles — the wider circle of disciples sent out by the Lord (Luke 10) and, in the tradition, r...