Saints

• Sisinius, Cyriacus and the Martyrs of Rome

  On June 7 the Byzantine calendars commemorate, in one long notice, the company of Roman martyrs formed around the relief of the Christian pr...

• Sisoes of the Far Caves

  Sisoes, called the Schemamonk, was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra of the thirteenth century whose incorrupt relics rest in the Far (Theodosi...

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  Sisoes the Great

  Sisoes the Great (†429) is among the most beloved of the Egyptian desert fathers, a monk of Scetis who after the repose of Anthony the Great...

• Six Martyrs of Bizye

  Six martyrs, whose names have not come down, are commemorated on August 10 in the Greek Menaion under the heading "the six martyrs at Bizye"...

• The Six Martyrs of Melitene

  Six martyrs, associated in the Greek synaxarion with Melitene in Armenia Minor, who were drowned for Christ. As with several of the minor co...

• The Six Thousand Martyrs of David-Gareji

  The largest single martyrdom in the history of the Georgian Church, and the one commemoration of the Georgian calendar that is fixed to Brig...

• The Sixteen Martyrs of Thebes

  A company of sixteen martyrs called Thebans, beheaded for Christ, whose number and manner of death is the whole of what the synaxarion trans...

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  Sixtus II of Rome

  Sixtus — Xystus in the Greek and in the older Latin — was bishop of Rome for less than a year, from August 257 to August 258, and is one of...

• Socrates and Stephen

  Socrates and Stephen are early martyrs of Britain known from the martyrologies alone. Their names stand against September 17 in the Martyrol...

• Solochon, Pamphamer and Pamphalon

  Solochon, Pamphamer and Pamphalon were Egyptian soldiers of a Roman legion moved to Chalcedon on the Asian shore opposite Byzantium, put to...

• Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki

  The Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki gathers on one day all the saints of the Solovetsky Monastery on the White Sea — the founders Sabbatius...

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  Sophia and Irene of Egypt

  Sophia and Irene were two women martyred for Christ in Egypt in the third century — the Russian tradition places their death under the emper...

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  Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love

  Sophia ("Wisdom") was a Christian widow of Italy whose three young daughters — Faith, Hope and Love (Pistis, Elpis and Agape; in Slavic use...

• Sophia of Ainos

  Sophia of Ainos in Thrace is the Church's chief example of the ascetic life lived out inside a household and a marriage. Born to wealthy and...

• Sophia the Physician

  Sophia, called the Physician (ἡ ἰατρός), is a martyr of the Byzantine synaxaria commemorated on May 22, known only from her bare synaxarion...

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  Sophronius of Cyprus

  Sophronius (6th century, by the usual reckoning) was a bishop of the Church of Cyprus, honoured by the tradition as an ascetic hierarch — le...

• Sophronius of Irkutsk

  Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk and Nerchinsk — in the liturgical style "of Irkutsk and all Siberia" — was one of the great missionary hierarc...

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  Sophronius of Jerusalem

  Sophronius the Sophist (c. 560 – 638) was Patriarch of Jerusalem in the last years before the Arab conquest, and one of the towering figures...

• Sophronius of Saint Anne's Skete

  Sophronius was an Athonite of the eighteenth century whose whole recorded biography is two sentences and one extraordinary act: on the night...

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  Sophronius of Vratsa

  Sophronius of Vratsa (1739–1813), born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a bishop of the Church of Bulgaria and one of the fathers of the Bulgarian Na...

• Sophronius of the Kiev Caves

  Sophronius was a recluse of the Far Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra, one of the monks of that house whose ascetic life is known only from the...

• Sophronius the Bulgarian

  Sophronius — Stephen before his tonsure — was a Bulgarian hieromonk of the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from the village o...

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  Sosthenes, Apollos, and Companions of the Seventy

  On December 8 the Church commemorates a company of apostles of the Seventy, all named in the letters of the New Testament: Sosthenes, once r...

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  Sozon of Cilicia

  Sozon (†c. 304) was a young Christian shepherd of Lycaonia, named Tarasios before his baptism, who suffered martyrdom at Pompeiopolis in Cil...

• Speratus and Veronica

  Speratus and Veronica are a pair of martyrs whom the Greek synaxaria commemorate on 17 July and of whom, in the Eastern tradition, nothing w...

• Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-Bakers of the Kiev Caves

  Spyridon and Nicodemus (12th century) were two monks of the Kiev Caves Monastery who together kept the obedience of baking the prosphora — t...

• Spyridon of Serbia

  Spyridon was Patriarch of Serbia from 1382 to 1389, in the years between the death of Tsar Dušan's empire and the ruin of Kosovo. Consecrate...

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  Spyridon of Trimythous

  Spyridon of Trimythous (c. 270–348) was a married Cypriot shepherd who became bishop of the small town of Trimythous and one of the most bel...

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  Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus of the Seventy

  Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus (1st century) are six of the Seventy Apostles, all greeted by name in the sixtee...

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  Stefan Lazarević

  Stefan Lazarević (c. 1377 – 19 July 1427), called the Tall, was the son of the great-martyr Lazar of Serbia and of Milica, and the ruler who...

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  Stephen I of Constantinople

  Stephen (c. 867 – 893) was the youngest son of the emperor Basil I the Macedonian and the brother of the emperor Leo VI the Wise, ordained t...

• Stephen I of Rome

  Stephen, bishop of Rome from 254 to 257, governed the Roman church in the uneasy peace before the persecution of Valerian and is remembered...

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  Stephen II of Constantinople

  Stephen II, metropolitan of Amasea in Pontus and afterwards Ecumenical Patriarch, held the throne of Constantinople from 925 until his death...

• Stephen of Chenolakkos

  Stephen (eighth century) was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Chenolakkos (Greek Chēnolákkos, "the goose-pond") in Bithynia, near C...

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  Stephen of Constantinople

  Stephen (†c. 614) was a man of the imperial court at Constantinople under the emperor Maurice who renounced rank and wealth for the sake of...

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  Stephen of Makhrishche

  Stephen was a monk of the Kiev Caves who fled the pressure put upon the Orthodox in the south-western Russian lands and came to Moscow, wher...

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  Stephen of Mar Sabbas

  Stephen the Sabbaite, called the Wonderworker, was the nephew and spiritual heir of John of Damascus. Brought as a boy of about ten to the G...

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  Stephen of Perm

  Stephen, bishop of Great Perm (c. 1340–1396), is the apostle of the Permians and Zyrians — the Finno-Ugric people known today as the Komi, o...

• Stephen of Reggio

  Stephen is commemorated on July 5 as bishop (in later Greek usage, metropolitan) of Reggio in Calabria — Byzantine Rhegium, the see at the t...

• Stephen of Surozh

  Stephen the Confessor (8th century) was archbishop of Surozh — Byzantine Sougdaia, the modern Sudak on the south-eastern coast of the Crimea...

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  Stephen of the Kiev Caves

  Stephen was a disciple of Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, whom the dying founder named as his own successor at the request of the brotherhood,...

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  Stephen the Great of Moldavia

  Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare, c. 1438–1504) ruled Moldavia for forty-seven years, from 1457 until his death on July 2, 1504, and is th...

• Stephen the Hymnographer

  Stephen the Hymnographer, a monk of the Great Lavra of Saint Sabbas (Mar Saba) in the Judaean desert, is commemorated on October 28 as one o...

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  Stephen the New

  Stephen the New (c. 715–764) was the foremost martyr of the second period of iconoclasm and the great monastic witness against the emperor C...

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  Stephen the Protomartyr

  Stephen the Protomartyr (†c. 34) was the first of the seven deacons chosen by the Apostles and the first Christian to die for Christ. "Full...

• Stephen the Wonderworker

  Stephen was a monk and abbot of the monastery of Triglia (or, in some notices, of the Chenolakkos community), a wonderworker who confessed t...

• Straton, Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian of Nicomedia

  Four Christians of Nicomedia — Straton, Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian — who made the city's circus their pulpit. Going in among the crowds g...

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  Stylianos of Paphlagonia

  Stylianos of Paphlagonia was a hermit of Asia Minor, honoured across the Orthodox world — and most warmly in the Greek tradition — as the pa...

• Susanna of Rome

  Susanna was a Roman virgin, daughter of the presbyter Gabinus and niece of Gaius, bishop of Rome, who was beheaded in her father's house abo...

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  Symeon of Trebizond

  Symeon, a goldsmith of Trebizond working in Constantinople, was hanged under a plane tree in the imperial city on 14 August 1653, refusing t...