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)