Hierarch · 11th century
Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Novgorod
Also known as Joachim of Korsun · Luke the Jew · Germanus · Arcadius · Gregory · Martyrius · Anthony · Basil the Lame · Simeon · Gennadius · Pimen · Aphthonius
A common commemoration of the bishops and archbishops who shepherded the see of Novgorod from St. Joachim of Korsun (10th-11th c.) onward, many of them wonderworkers whose relics rest in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom.
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- St. Moses, Archbishop of Novgorod · Hierarch
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- Saint Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk · Hierarch
- St. Eustathius I, Archbishop of Serbia · Hierarch
Notes
Collective synaxis; also kept Oct 4 and the third Sunday after Pentecost. Era/century reflect the founding bishop; the synaxis spans the 11th-17th centuries.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org)