August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 24

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

For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10.

Feasts

 * Apodosis of the Dormition.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (ca. 177)
 * Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (202)
 * Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (see also: March 26)
 * Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace (ca. 305) (see also: August 20)
 * Martyr Lupus of Novae (306), slave of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki.    (see also: October 26)
 * Saints Eutychius (540) and Florentius (547) of Nursia.
 * Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople (705)
 * Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis (10th century)
 * Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in Euboea.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions (c. 235)
 * Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyons in France - eight children are included in their number (3rd century)
 * Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen (c. 480)
 * Saint Victor of Vita (Victor Vitensis), born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica (c. 535)
 * Saint Éogan of Ardstraw (c. 618)
 * Saints Flavian (Flavinian, Flavius) of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France (7th century)
 * Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France (731)
 * Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions (870)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent (in the Heraklio Prefecture), the newly-revealed (1788)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky (1918)
 * New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
 * Mykhaylivska Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
 * Repose of Abbot Ioannicius (Moroi) of Sihastria, Romania (1944)