Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon

St. Cosmas the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon.

St. Cosmas the Confessor was Bishop of Chalcedon in the ninth century, during the second period of iconoclasm. Raised in the monastic life before his consecration, he refused to renounce the veneration of the holy icons when the emperor demanded it, and for this he was stripped of his see and endured persecution and exile.

He remained faithful to the end, and the Church numbers him among the confessor hierarchs through whom the Orthodox faith was preserved. He is commemorated on April 18.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon is commemorated on April 18. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on May 1 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Cosmas, Kosmas

Also commemorated on April 18

• John the Hesychast

  Venerable, Ιωάννης ο Ησυχαστής

  Venerable John the Hesychast, disciple of Saint Gregory of Decapolis.

• Athanasia of Aegina

  Holy Woman, Αθανασία η εξ Αιγίνης

  Venerable Athanasia of Aegina, abbess and wonderworker.

  Name days: Athanasia, Athanassia, Nasia, Athanasoula

• John the Tailor of Ioannina

  Martyr, Ιωάννης ο Ράπτης

  Holy New Martyr John of Ioannina, a tailor burned for Christ in Constantinople.

• Akakios of Melitene

  Hierarch, Ακάκιος Μελιτηνής

  Saint Akakios, Bishop of Melitene, wonderworker and father of the Third Ecumenical Council.

• Cyril VI of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Κύριλλος ΣΤ' ο Ιερομάρτυς

  Hieromartyr Cyril VI, Patriarch of Constantinople, hanged at Adrianople in 1821.

• Synaxis of the Kollyvades Fathers

  Saint, Σύναξη των Οσίων Κολλυβάδων

  Synaxis of the holy Kollyvades Fathers of Mount Athos, renewers of the spiritual life of the Greek people.

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