April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 9.

## Saints

* Holy Apostle Nathaniel of the Twelve (Bartholomew) (1st century)
* Apostles Apelles, Luke (not the Evangelist), and Clement, of the Seventy (1st century)
* Martyr Leonides of Alexandria, Bishop (202)
* Martyr Nearchus, by fire (3rd century)
* Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia (613) (see also: June 15 - Translation; June 16 - Uncovering)
* Saint Vitalis of Gaza, monk of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza (609-620) (see also: January 11)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Hieromartyr Soter, Pope of Rome (c. 174)
* Martyrs Epipodius of Lyons, by beheading (c. 177)
* Saint Gaius, born in Dalmatia, became Pope of Rome, martyred with members of his family (296) (see also: August 11)
* Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536) (see also: April 17 - East)
* Saint Leo of Sens, Bishop of Sens in France for twenty-three years (541)
* The Two Brothers Arwald, sons of Arwald, the last Jutish King of the Isle of Wight, put to death by soldiers of King Ceadwalla, then a pagan, on the day after their baptism (686)
* Saint Opportuna of Montreuil, sister of St Chrodegang, Bishop of Séez, Abbess at the convent of Monteuil (c. 770)
* Saint Senorina, a Galician abbess who served as the abbess of the Benedictine convent of St John of Venaria (Vieyra) (982)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Ananias of Malles, first monk, renovator and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Exakousti in the village of Malles in Ierapetra, Crete (1907)
* Saint Ekaterina (Malkov-Panina), fool-for-Christ, of the Holy Dormition Pukhtitsa Convent in Estonia (1968)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Eustathius Malahovsky, Priest (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (Platon Jovanovic), Bishop of Banja Luka (1941) (see also: May 5)
* Martyr Demetrius Vlasenkov (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1834) of St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov (1138)
* Repose of Blessed fool-for-Christ Athanasius Andreyevich Saiko of Orel (1967)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Apostle Nathaniel of the Twelve (Bartholomew).
* Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia.
* Saint Vitalis of Gaza, monk of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza.
* Hieromartyr Soter, Pope of Rome.
* Pope Saint Gaius.
* Agapitus I, Pope of Rome.
* St. Senorina of Basto.
* St. Platon of Banja Luka.
* St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov
