August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 19 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – August 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 20, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 7.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Dormition.

Saints

 * Prophet Samuel (11th century BC)
 * Hieromartyr Philip of Heraclea, Bishop, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon, and 37 soldiers, in Philippopolis, Thrace (304)
 * Saints Reginus and Orestes the Great Martyrs, in Cyprus.
 * Martyr Lucius the Senator, of Cyprus (c. 310)
 * Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia (380)
 * Martyr Photine, at the gates of Blachernae.
 * Saint Hierotheus, first Bishop and Enlightener of Hungary (10th century)
 * Saint Stephen I of Hungary, King of Hungary (1038)   (see also: August 16 - West)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Porphyrius, an early martyr in Palestrina near Rome.
 * Saint Amator (Amadour), hermit.
 * Saint Maximus, a disciple of St Martin and founder of the monastery of Chinon in France, confessor (c. 470)
 * Martyr Oswine of Deira, king of Deira (651)
 * Saint Haduin (Harduin), Bishop of Le Mans in France, he founded several monasteries including Notre-Dame-d'Evron (c. 662)
 * Saint Philibert of Jumièges (Gaul) (685)
 * Saint Eadberht of Northumbria (Edbert), successor of St Ceolwulf on the throne of Northumbria in England, then became a monastic (768)
 * Saint Burchard, monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium, then became Bishop of Worms where he was a canonist (1026)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Abramius of Smolensk, Archimandrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk, (1220) (see also: August 21)
 * New Martyr Theocharis of Neapolis, Cappadocia (1740)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Chetverin, Priest (1938)
 * New Martyrs of Estonia (1944-1955):
 * New Hieromartyr Peeter (Pähkel), Bishop of Tartu and Pechory (1948)
 * New Hieromartyr Alypy (Ivlev), Archimandrite (1950)
 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Irodionov, Protopresbyter (1945)
 * New Hieromartyr Ioann Vark, Priest (1952)
 * New Hieromartyr Leonid Lavrov, Priest (1954)
 * New Hieromartyr Seraphim Ulyanov, Priest (1955)
 * Martyr Alexander Gadalin, church warden (1951)
 * Martyr Andrei Punsun (1955)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina, California (1982)
 * Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon (Lukich) of Kyiv (1991)