Memnon of Ephesus

Memnon, Archbishop of Ephesus.

Memnon was Archbishop of Ephesus, remembered in the Synaxarion as a hierarch who governed his church in piety and reposed in peace. The Church also remembers on this day the martyrs Probus and Hilary.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Memnon of Ephesus is commemorated on December 16. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on December 29 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on December 16

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  Aggaeus the Prophet

  Prophet, Αγγαίος

  Prophet Haggai.

  Name days: Angeos, Aggaios, Haggai

• Theophano the Empress

  Holy Woman, Θεοφανώ η Βασίλισσα

  Holy Empress Theophano the Wonderworker, wife of Emperor Leo the Wise.

  Name days: Theofano, Theophano

• Modestos of Jerusalem

  Hierarch, Μόδεστος Ιεροσολύμων

  Modestos, Archbishop of Jerusalem, patron of animals.

  Name days: Modestos, Modest, Modestus

• Marinus of Rome

  Martyr, Μαρίνος

  Holy Martyr Marinus of Rome.

  Name days: Marinos

• Nicholas Chrysoberges

  Hierarch, Νικόλαος Β' Χρυσοβέργης

  Nicholas II Chrysoberges, Patriarch of Constantinople.