Saints

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  Pachomius the Great

  Pachomius is the father of cenobitic monasticism — the man who took the solitary ascetic life of the Egyptian desert and gave it a common ta...

• Paisios the Athonite

  Paisios of the Holy Mountain (1924–1994) was a Cappadocian-born Greek monk who became the most widely sought spiritual father of twentieth-c...

• Paisius Velichkovsky

  Paisius Velichkovsky (1722–1794) was the Ukrainian-born, Athonite and Moldavian elder who, more than any other single figure, revived Orthod...

• Paisius of Galich

  Paisius was abbot, and afterwards archimandrite, of the Dormition monastery on the hill above Lake Galich, in the Kostroma country of northe...

• Paisius of Hilendar

  Paisius was a hieromonk of the Bulgarian brotherhood at the monastery of Hilendar on Mount Athos who, in 1762, finished writing a small book...

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  Paisius of Uglich

  Paisius of Uglich (c. 1397 – 1504) was the founder and first abbot of the Protection (Pokrov) Monastery near Uglich on the Volga, and a wond...

• Paisius of the Far Caves

  Paisius was a monk of the Kiev Caves monastery, of the fourteenth century by the usual reckoning, whose whole memory rests on a single fact...

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  Paisius the Great

  Paisius the Great was an Egyptian ascetic of the Nitrian desert, a disciple of the elder Pambo, and one of the fathers whose austerity the d...

• Palamon of Egypt

  Palamon was an anchorite of the Upper Thebaid in the first quarter of the fourth century, and the spiritual father of Pachomius the Great. W...

• Palladius of Antioch

  Palladius the Hermit (†end of the 4th century) was an ascetic who lived in a mountain cave near Antioch in Syria, where he received from God...

• Palladius of Thessalonica

  Palladius of Thessalonica was a monastic saint of the late sixth and early seventh centuries. Born at Thessalonica, he pursued the ascetic l...

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  Pambo of Nitria

  Pambo (c. 303 – c. 375) was one of the founding fathers of the desert of Nitria, the great monastic settlement south-west of the Delta, and...

• Pambo of the Kiev Caves

  Pambo the Recluse was a hieromonk of the Caves monastery at Kiev who was taken captive by the Tatars in the years of the Mongol conquest, he...

• Pamphilus and Capito

  Pamphilus and Capito are a pair of martyrs entered in the calendars on August 12, of whom the tradition preserves only that they were behead...

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  Pamphilus of Caesarea and his Companions

  Pamphilus (c. 240 – 309) was the learned priest of Caesarea in Palestine — the keeper and restorer of the great library that Origen had foun...

• Panaretus of Paphos

  Panaretus (c. 1710–1790) was bishop of Paphos in Cyprus for twenty-three years, in the hardest decades of Ottoman rule on the island, and is...

• Pancharius of Nicomedia

  Pancharius (†c. 302) was a Roman of noble birth and a courtier in high favour with the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, who — fearing the e...

• Pancratius of Rome

  Pancratius — in the West Saint Pancras — was a boy of fourteen martyred at Rome in the persecution of Diocletian, about the year 304. A nati...

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  Pancratius of Taormina

  Pancratius (first century) is venerated as the first bishop of Tauromenium (Taormina) in Sicily and the apostle of the island — a disciple o...

• Pansophius of Alexandria

  Pansophius (early 3rd century – c. 250) was a martyr of Alexandria, the son of a Roman proconsul, who was well educated in his youth and, co...

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  Panteleimon the Healer

  Panteleimon of Nicomedia (c. 275 – c. 305) is the physician-martyr of the Great Persecution and, with Cosmas and Damian, the chief of the Un...

• Papas of Lycaonia

  Papas (†c. 305) was a martyr of Laranda in Lycaonia, in the interior of Asia Minor, who suffered in the Great Persecution under Maximian. Se...

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  Paphnutius of Borovsk

  Paphnutius (1394–1477) is one of the great abbots of the northern Russian revival that descended from Saint Sergius of Radonezh. Grandson of...

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  Paphnutius of Egypt and his 546 Companions

  Paphnutius was an Egyptian anchorite of the desert who, in the great persecution under Diocletian at the opening of the fourth century, left...

• Paphnutius the Hieromartyr

  Paphnutius was a bishop (by tradition, of Jerusalem) and martyr who suffered in one of the persecutions of the early Church — most likely th...

• Paphnutius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves

  Paphnutius was a monk of the Kiev Caves who lived as a recluse in the caverns of the great monastery and is remembered above all for the gif...

• Pappias the Martyr

  Pappias suffered in the great persecution of Diocletian and Maximian at the beginning of the fourth century — the last and fiercest of the p...

• Pappos

  Pappos is a venerable father of the Greek synaxaria commemorated on June 3, of whom the record preserves exactly one clause: Ὁ Ὅσιος Πάππος...

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  Paramon and the 370 Martyrs of Bithynia

  Paramon and the 370 Martyrs of Bithynia suffered around the year 250, in the persecution of the emperor Decius. According to the tradition,...

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  Parasceva of Iconium

  Parasceva of Iconium is a virgin great-martyr of the early Church, honoured across the whole Orthodox world on October 28 and among the most...

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  Parasceva of Rome

  Parasceva was a Roman-born Christian of the second century, the only child of Greek Christian parents, Agathon and Politia, who named her fo...

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  Parasceva of the Balkans

  Parasceva of the Balkans (11th century), called Petka by the Slavs, Cuvioasa Parascheva by the Romanians, and "the New" by the Greeks, is th...

• Parmenas the Deacon

  Parmenas was the last-named but one of the seven deacons whom the Apostles ordained at Jerusalem (Acts 6:1–6), and is numbered among the Sev...

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  Parthenius of Lampsacus

  Parthenius (fourth century) was bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont in the age of Constantine the Great, and one of the most celebrated wo...

• Passarion of Jerusalem

  Passarion was one of the founding figures of Palestinian monasticism in the generation before the great laurae: a monk of Jerusalem who buil...

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  Patapius of Thebes

  Patapius (7th century, by the common Greek reckoning) was an Egyptian ascetic from Thebes who withdrew as a young man into the desert, and —...

• Patermuthius, Coprius and Alexander

  Three Egyptians who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361–363): Patermuthius, in his youth the captain of a band of robbers, who repented,...

• Patrick of Ireland

  Patrick (late 4th century – c. 461/493) is the apostle and enlightener of Ireland, a saint of the undivided Church honoured East and West on...

• Patrick of Prusa

  Patrick, bishop of Prusa in Bithynia, was put to death with three of his priests — Acacius, Menander and Polyaenus — at the famous hot sprin...

• Patroclus of Troyes

  Patroclus was a wealthy and devout Christian of Tricassae — the city that is now Troyes in Champagne — who was beheaded for his faith in the...

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  Paul and Juliana of Ptolemais

  Paul and Juliana were a brother and sister martyred at Ptolemais (Akko/Acre) on the coast of Phoenicia under the emperor Aurelian (270–275),...

• Paul of Latros

  Paul the Younger (†955) was a hermit and monastic founder of Mount Latros (the ancient Latmos), the range above Miletus in western Asia Mino...

• Paul of Neocaesarea

  Paul, bishop of Neocaesarea on the Euphrates, was a confessor of the last great persecution — that of the emperor Licinius (reigned 308–324)...

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  Paul of Obnora

  Paul of Obnora (1317 – 1429) was one of the great hermit-founders of the northern Russian forests, a disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh a...

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  Paul of Thebes

  Paul of Thebes (c. 227 – c. 341), called the First Hermit, is honoured by the Church as the father and archetype of Christian solitude. A we...

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  Paul of Xeropotamou

  Paul is honoured as the founder of two of the twenty ruling monasteries of Mount Athos — Xeropotamou, which he restored out of ruins, and th...

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  Paul the Apostle

  Paul — Saul of Tarsus, Pharisee, pupil of Gamaliel, and the fiercest persecutor the infant Church knew — was struck down on the Damascus roa...

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  Paul the Confessor

  Paul the Confessor (died c. 350) was archbishop of Constantinople during the height of the Arian crisis, a firm champion of the Nicene faith...

• Paul the Confessor of Plousias

  Paul the Confessor (died c. 850) was bishop of Plousias, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, and a defender of the holy icons in the second ic...

• Paul the Obedient

  Paul the Obedient is a monastic saint known only from a short synaxarion notice, which gives neither his dates nor his country. Born of weal...