Saints

• Paul the Physician of Corinth

  Paul, called the Physician, was a monk of Corinth who was tonsured in his youth and lived out his life in the monastic struggle. His memory...

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  Paul the Simple

  Paul the Simple (†c. 339) was an Egyptian farmer who at about sixty years of age, on discovering his wife's adultery, walked into the desert...

• Paul, Tatta and their Children

  Paul and his wife Tatta, with their children Sabinian, Maximus, Rufus and Eugene, were a Christian family of Damascus who were denounced tog...

• Paulinus of Nola

  Paulinus of Nola (c. 354 – 431) was a Gallo-Roman nobleman — senator, consul, and governor — who renounced one of the greatest fortunes in t...

• Pausikakos of Synnada

  Pausikakos — whose name means "he who makes evil to cease" — was a physician who became a monk, went about the cities of Asia Minor healing...

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  Pelagia of Tarsus

  Pelagia of Tarsus (†c. 290) was a maiden of a wealthy pagan house in Tarsus of Cilicia who came to faith in Christ from Christian companions...

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  Pelagia the Penitent

  Pelagia the Penitent (†c. 457) is the most celebrated of the penitent courtesans of the Orthodox calendar: the foremost actress and courtesa...

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  Pelagia the Virgin of Antioch

  Pelagia the Virgin of Antioch (†c. 303) was a fifteen-year-old Christian maiden of a noble Antiochene house who, when soldiers of the great...

• Peregrinus and Companions of Dyrrachium

  Seven Christians of Italy — Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Papias, Saturninus and Germanus — fled the persecution in their own cou...

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  Perpetua and Felicity and Companions

  Perpetua and Felicity, with their companions Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, and Secundulus, were martyred in the amphitheatre at Carthage a...

• Peter Absolom

  Peter Absolom (died c. 309–311) was a young Christian of Anea, near Eleutheropolis in Palestine, martyred by fire at Caesarea in the persecu...

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  Peter and Fevronia of Murom

  Peter, prince of Murom on the Oka, and his wife Fevronia, the daughter of a tree-honey gatherer from the village of Laskovo, are the Russian...

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  Peter and Paul of Nicaea

  Peter and Paul (9th century and earlier) were bishops of Nicaea in Bithynia, joined in a single commemoration on September 10. Peter is a do...

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  Peter of Alexandria

  Peter was archbishop of Alexandria from about 300 until his martyrdom in 311, the last of the great bishop-martyrs of the Egyptian church un...

• Peter of Argos

  Peter (c. 855 – c. 922) was bishop of Argos and Nauplion in the Peloponnese, and is remembered in the Greek Church chiefly as the merciful h...

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  Peter of Athos

  Peter the Athonite is honoured as the first hermit of the Holy Mountain and, with the Theotokos herself, as the founder of its vocation. A B...

• Peter of Atroa

  Peter of Atroa (773–837) was a Bithynian ascetic and hegumen of the monastery of Saint Zachariah at Atroa, at the foot of the Bithynian Olym...

• Peter of Capitolias

  Peter of Capitolias (†715) was a learned priest of Capitolias in Transjordan — the modern Beit Ras in northern Jordan — who was put to death...

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  Peter of Damascus

  Peter of Damascus is honoured in the Byzantine calendars on February 9 as a hieromartyr — a bishop of Damascus who, in the age of the Arab c...

• Peter of Egypt

  Peter of Egypt (fifth century) was one of the ascetics of the Egyptian desert, commemorated among the Fathers on January 27. The tradition r...

• Peter of Korisha

  Peter of Korisha (c. 1211 – c. 1270) is the great hermit of medieval Serbia: a peasant's son from the Hvosno country between Peć and the pla...

• Peter of Lampsacus and his Companions

  These eight are the company whose names open the Byzantine notice for May 18: Peter, Dionysius, Christina the virgin, Andrew, Paul, Benedimu...

• Peter of Monembasia

  Peter of Monembasia is a venerable monastic saint commemorated on February 7, known only from the brief notice of the Byzantine synaxaria. T...

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  Peter of Moscow

  Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia (c. 1260–1326), was the first primate of the Russian Church to make his residence at Moscow, and...

• Peter the Aleut

  Peter, whose native name was Cungagnaq, was a Kodiak Aleut of the Russian-American mission territory, baptised into the Orthodox faith, who...

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  Peter the Apostle

  Peter — Simon bar Jonah, the fisherman of Bethsaida whom Christ renamed Cephas, "rock" — is the first-named of the Twelve, the prōtokoryphai...

• Peter the Hermit of Galatia

  Peter the Hermit of Galatia (c. 330 – c. 429) was one of the ascetic fathers of the region of Antioch whose life is recorded by Theodoret of...

• Peter the New

  Peter, called the New or the Younger, is a martyr known only from a single line of the Greek synaxarion for July 14, which records that he w...

• Peter the Patrician

  Peter was a patrician of Constantinople and an officer of the imperial army who was taken prisoner in the catastrophic Bulgarian campaign of...

• Peter the Tax-Collector

  Peter the Tax-Collector was the chief collector of taxes of the province of Africa under the emperor Justinian (527–565), a hard and mercile...

• Peter, Tsarevich of the Horde

  Peter of Rostov was a prince of the Golden Horde, nephew of Berke Khan (Bergai), who came to Christ through the preaching of Bishop Cyril of...

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  Peusippus, Elasippus, Mesippus and Neonilla

  Peusippus, Elasippus and Mesippus were three brothers — the tradition calls them triplets — martyred in the second century, together with th...

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  Phanourius of Rhodes

  Phanourius is the saint whom the Church learned about from his own icon. Nothing of his life was transmitted: a panel bearing the name ΦΑΝΟΥ...

• Pharmuthius of Egypt

  Pharmuthius was a solitary of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, remembered among the anchorites of the Thebaid for his obedience, h...

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  Philagrius of Cyprus

  Philagrius (first century) is venerated as a bishop in Cyprus and a hieromartyr of the apostolic age — one of the disciples whom the Apostle...

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  Philaret the Merciful

  Philaret the Merciful (c. 702–792) was a wealthy landowner of Amnia in Paphlagonia whose boundless almsgiving reduced him and his family to...

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  Philemon, Apollonius and Arrian

  Philemon and Apollonius were martyrs of Antinoöpolis (Antinoe) in the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Diocletian, suffering about...

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  Philemon, Archippus, Onesimus and Apphia

  Philemon and his wife Apphia were a Christian couple of Colossae in Phrygia whose house became the church addressed in the Apostle Paul's sh...

• Philip of Heraclea

  Philip, bishop of Heraclea (the old Perinthus) on the Thracian shore of the Propontis, is the chief name under which the Byzantine calendars...

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  Philip of Moscow

  Philip (1507–1569), born Theodore Kolychev of a great Moscow boyar family, was the hierarch-martyr who rebuked Ivan the Terrible to his face...

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  Philip the Apostle

  Philip, of the city of Bethsaida in Galilee, is one of the Twelve Apostles — the third called by Christ, who found him the day after Andrew...

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  Philip the Deacon

  Philip the Deacon (first century), counted among the Seventy Apostles, was one of the Seven chosen by the apostles to serve tables in Jerusa...

• Philo of Karpasia

  Philo (5th century) was bishop of Karpasia, on the Karpas peninsula at the north-eastern tip of Cyprus — a learned pastor ordained, the trad...

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  Philogonius of Antioch

  Philogonius (†c. 324) was bishop of Antioch from about 319 to 324, a defender of the Nicene faith at the very outset of the Arian controvers...

• Philonides of Kourion

  The first bishop of Kourion whose name is preserved — the Cypriot city on the cliff above the southern sea whose great sanctuary of Apollo H...

• Philosophus of Alexandria

  Philosophus was a young Christian of Alexandria who was put to death in the persecution of the emperor Decius (249–251). His passion is reme...

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  Philothea of Argeș

  Philothea of Argeș (c. 1206 – c. 1218) is a child virgin-martyr of the Balkans whose incorrupt relics, enshrined at the monastery of Curtea...

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  Philothei of Athens

  Philothei of Athens (1522–1589), born Regoula Benizelou to one of the noblest families of Ottoman Athens, is the great nun-martyr and philan...

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  Philotheus the Presbyter

  Philotheus the Presbyter was a tenth-century parish priest and wonderworker of the village of Myrmex (Slavonic Mravin) in Bithynia, in the O...

• Philumenus of Ancyra

  Philumenus of Ancyra was a grain-merchant of the Galatian city of Ancyra (modern Ankara) who suffered for Christ about the year 274, in the...