Saints

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  Phineas the High Priest

  Phineas (Hebrew Pinchas) was the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, and the third high priest of Israel, remembered in Scripture for the...

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  Phocas of Sinope

  Phocas was bishop of Sinope, the great harbour city of the southern Black Sea coast, and died a martyr there in the year 117, in the persecu...

• Phoebe of Cenchreae

  Phoebe is the woman whom the Apostle Paul commends at the head of the greetings of his Epistle to the Romans: "our sister, who is a deacon o...

• Phosterius the Hermit

  Phosterius (whose Greek name means "luminary" or "light-bearer") was an ascetic of the age of the Iconoclast controversy, remembered in the...

• Photeine of Cyprus

  Photeine — known throughout the Karpasia peninsula by the affectionate diminutive Agia Photou — was a village girl of Rizokarpaso in north-e...

• Photini of Blachernae

  A woman martyr commemorated on August 20 in the Greek synaxaria, of whom the one transmitted detail is topographical rather than biographica...

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  Photini the Samaritan Woman

  Photini (first century – c. 66) is the name the Church gives to the Samaritan woman whom Christ met at Jacob's Well near Sychar and to whom,...

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  Photius of Kiev

  Photius (c. 1370s–1431) was a Greek monk of the Peloponnese who was sent from Constantinople in 1408 to be Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'...

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  Photius the Great

  Photius the Great (c. 810–891) was Patriarch of Constantinople, twice on the throne (858–867 and 877–886), and the foremost scholar-hierarch...

• Photius the Monk

  Photius — printed in the Greek books also as Φώτας, Photas — is a venerable monastic commemorated on June 6, of whom the service-books prese...

• Piama

  Piama (Piamun) was an Egyptian virgin of the fourth century, known from the Lausiac History of Palladius. She lived quietly with her widowed...

• Pimen the Faster of the Kiev Caves

  Pimen the Faster (twelfth century) was a monk — and, by the Russian calendar's styling, an abbot — of the Kiev Caves Lavra, remembered for o...

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  Pimen the Much-Ailing of the Kiev Caves

  Pimen, surnamed the Much-Ailing (Mnogoboleznenny), is the monk of the Kiev Caves whose whole ascetic life was an illness. Born sick and neve...

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  Pionius of Smyrna

  Pionius (third century, †c. 250) was a learned presbyter of the church of Smyrna who was arrested, tried, and burned alive in the persecutio...

• Martyrs of Pisidia

  A great company of martyrs beheaded in Pisidia, in the highlands of southern Asia Minor, whose number the manuscripts give as one thousand a...

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  Pitirim of Tambov

  Pitirim was the second bishop of Tambov, a frontier diocese on the steppe edge of seventeenth-century Muscovy, where he served thirteen year...

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  Plato of Ancyra

  Plato of Ancyra (†c. 306) was a young confessor of Galatia who was martyred in his native city during the Great Persecution. Still in his yo...

• Plutarch and Companions

  Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, a second Serenus and the woman Heraïs were pupils of the catechetical school of Alexandria who were pu...

• Poemen of Palestine

  Poemen of Palestine is a solitary of the Rouba, the wilderness east of Jerusalem, known from a single chapter of the Spiritual Meadow of Joh...

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  Poemen the Great

  Poemen — the name means "shepherd" — is the greatest of the Egyptian desert fathers by sheer weight of transmitted teaching: more sayings st...

• Polybius of Rinocorura

  Polybius was the travelling companion, biographer and spiritual son of Epiphanius of Cyprus, and it is largely to him that the Church owes t...

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  Polycarp of Smyrna

  Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155) was bishop of Smyrna, a disciple of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, and — with Ignatius of Antioch...

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  Polycarp of the Kiev Caves

  Polycarp was archimandrite of the Caves monastery at Kiev in the second half of the twelfth century, in the generation after the founders, a...

• Polychronius of Babylon

  Polychronius, bishop of Babylon, suffered in the persecution of Decius (249–251) with a company of his own clergy — the priests Parmenius, H...

• Polychronius the Presbyter

  Polychronius was a priest of the fourth century, remembered as a farmer's son whose love of labour and ascetic life, shown in the vineyards...

• Polydorus of Cyprus

  Polydorus (†1794), a merchant's son of Nicosia, is one of the new-martyrs of the Ottoman world whose crown was won out of a fall: drawn into...

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  Polyeuctus of Constantinople

  Polyeuctus (died 970) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 956 to 970, a monk of famed asceticism and learning raised to the see in old age,...

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  Polyeuctus of Melitene

  Polyeuctus (†c. 259) was a Roman soldier of Melitene in Lesser Armenia and the first martyr of that city — one of the most celebrated martyr...

• Pontius of Cimiez

  Pontius was a young Roman of senatorial family, the spiritual son of Pope Fabian, who spent his inheritance on the poor of the city and whos...

• Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

  Porphyrios (1906–1991), born Evangelos Bairaktaris, was one of the most beloved elders of the twentieth-century Orthodox Church: a poor shep...

• Porphyrius and Baptus

  Porphyrius and Baptus were two soldiers of Magnesia who, set to torture the aged hieromartyr Charalampus during the persecution of Septimius...

• Porphyrius of Caesarea

  Porphyrius of Caesarea (†c. 270) is the "Holy Martyr Porphyrius" whom the Greek Menaion commemorates on November 4, martyred by the sword. I...

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  Porphyrius of Gaza

  Porphyrius (c. 347 – 420) was bishop of Gaza from 395 to his death, and the man who broke the last great stronghold of organized paganism in...

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  Porphyrius the Actor

  Porphyrius the Actor (†361) was a mime of the reign of Julian the Apostate who, performing at the celebrations of the emperor's birthday, wa...

• Potamia the Wonderworker

  Potamia is a saint of the Byzantine calendar known from a single line: she was perfected by the sword. Neither her country, her century, the...

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  Potamiaena of Alexandria

  Potamiaena was a young Christian woman of Alexandria, in the household of a pagan master who desired her and could not have her. To his dema...

• Potamon of Heraclea

  Potamon, Bishop of Heraclea in Egypt, is the rare saint who was twice a martyr's victim: maimed by the pagans and killed by fellow Christian...

• Pothinus, Blandina and the Martyrs of Lyons

  In the year 177, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the Christians of Lugdunum (Lyons) and Vienne in Gaul were seized by the mob and the magis...

• Potitus

  Potitus was a boy of the second century who was baptised at thirteen against his pagan father's will, converted that father by his constancy...

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  Praxedes of Rome

  Praxedes was a Christian woman of second-century Rome, honoured with her sister Pudentiana as one of the earliest of the Roman virgins: daug...

• Praylius of Jerusalem

  Praylius held the see of Jerusalem for five years, from 417 to 422, between the long episcopate of John II and the still longer one of Juven...

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  Priscus of Phrygia

  Priscus was a martyr of Phrygia in Asia Minor, known only from the brief notices of the synaxaria, which record neither the year of his cont...

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  Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus

  Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus (†304) are the chief martyrs of October 12: three Christians of very different stations — Tarachus an aged R...

• Prochorus of the Kiev Caves

  Prochorus of the Kiev Caves (died 1107), called Lebednik — "the goosefoot-eater" — was a monk of the Caves monastery famous for an extreme a...

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  Prochorus the Deacon

  Prochorus was one of the seven deacons ordained by the Apostles in the earliest days of the Jerusalem church (Acts 6:1–6) and is numbered am...

• Proclus and Hilary of Ancyra

  Proclus and Hilary were kinsmen — uncle and nephew — of the village of Kallippi near Ancyra in Galatia, put to death for Christ under the em...

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  Proclus of Constantinople

  Proclus (died 446 or 447) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 434, a disciple and secretary of John Chrysostom whose gifts as a preacher p...

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  Procopius of Ustyug

  Procopius of Ustyug (†1303) is the first fool-for-Christ of the Russian land and the patron of Great Ustyug in the far north. By the traditi...

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  Procopius the Great Martyr

  Procopius (†303) is the most celebrated of the soldier-martyrs of Palestine and one of the great martyrs of the Eastern Church. The develope...

• Procopius the Reader

  Procopius the Reader (†303) was a reader of the church of Jerusalem, born at Scythopolis, who led a strict ascetic life and was granted the...