Orthodox Calendar
June 2026
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1

  • Day of the Holy Spirit
  • Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)

2

  • Third Day of the Trinity
  • Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)
  • Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

3

  • SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles
  • Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine (337) and Helen, his mother (327)
  • Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)

4

  • Hieromartyr Basiliscus of Comana (308)
  • Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.
  • Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).

5

  • St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818)
  • Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas
  • Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)
  • Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)

6

  • Leavetaking of Pentecost
  • St Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of the Wonderful Mountain (595)
  • Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites (1186)
  • St Vincent of Lerins (445)

7

  • 1st Sunday after Pentecost
  • All Saints
  • 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist
  • Third Finding of the Precious Head of St John the Baptist (ca. 850)
  • Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.)
  • Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)

8

Apostles Fast

  • Beginning of Apostles' Fast
  • Holy Apostle Carpus of the Seventy
  • Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)
  • Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)

9

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259)
  • Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)
  • Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730)
  • Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.)
  • Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)

10

Apostles Fast

  • St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)

11

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308)
  • Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)
  • The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"

12

Apostles Fast

  • St Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)
  • St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)

13

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Apostle Hermas of the Seventy

14

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
  • All Saints of America, All Saints of Russia
  • Martyr Justin the Philosopher and those with him at Rome (166)
  • Our Holy Father Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (1095)

15

Apostles Fast

  • St Nikephoros the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829)
  • Holy New Martyr Constantine (1819)
  • Hieromartyr Erazmo of Ochrid (303)

16

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Holy Martyr Lucillian and those with him (270)
  • Hieromartyr Lucian (2nd c.)
  • Holy Martyr Dimitri, Tsarevich of Russia (1591)

17

Apostles Fast

  • St Metrophanes, Archbishop of Constantinople (325)
  • Holy Myrrh-bearers Mary and Martha, sisters of St Lazarus (1st c.)

18

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre (361)
  • Our Holy Father Theodore the Hermit and Wonderworker (583)
  • Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1147)
  • Blessed Constantine, Metropolitan of Kiev (1159)

19

Apostles Fast

  • St Hilarion the New, abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery (845)
  • Our Holy Mothers the Martyrs Archelaïs, Thekla and Susanna (293)
  • St Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt (466)

20

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303)
  • Hieromartyr Marcellinus, pope of Rome (304)
  • St Daniel of Skete in Egypt (5th c.)

21

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 3rd Sunday after Pentecost
  • Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Strateletes (319)
  • St Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545)
  • Our Holy Mother Melania the Elder (410)
  • St Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th c.)

22

Apostles Fast

  • St Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria (444)
  • St Columba of Iona (597)
  • Saint Kyril of Belozersk (1427)

23

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Timothy, bishop of Prusa (362)
  • Holy Martyrs Alexander and Antonina (313)
  • Hieromartyr Metrophanes, first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising (1900)

24

Apostles Fast

  • Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas
  • Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas
  • Commemoration of the appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin (980)

25

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Our Holy Fathers Onuphrios the Great and Peter of Mount Athos

26

Apostles Fast

  • Holy Martyr Aquilina of Byblos (293)
  • Saint Triphyllius, bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus (370)
  • St Anna and her son John (5h c.)

27

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Holy Prophet Elisha (Elisseus) (10th c. BC)
  • St Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (847)
  • St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaïta(1100)

28

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 4th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Holy Prophet Amos (8th c. BC)
  • Holy Martyr Vitus, with Modestus and Crescentia (303)
  • Blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo (430), and his mother Monica (387)
  • Holy Martyr Lazar, Prince of Serbia (1389)

29

Apostles Fast

  • St Tikhon (Tychon), bishop of Amathus in Cyprus (425)
  • Holy Martyrs Tigrios and Eutropios (404)

30

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Martyrs Manuel, Sabael, and Ismael of Persia (362)
  • Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)