Menas Patriarch of Constantinople

Saint Menas, Archbishop of Constantinople.

Saint Menas was Patriarch of Constantinople in the reign of Justinian the Great, in whose time the Church of Hagia Sophia was built. He presided over the Church in the years before the Fifth Ecumenical Council.

He reposed in peace in the sixth century.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Menas Patriarch of Constantinople is commemorated on August 25. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on September 7 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on August 25

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  Return of the Relics of Bartholomew

  Apostle, Βαρθολομαίος

  Transfer of Relics of Holy Apostle Bartholomew.

  Name days: Bartholomeos, Bartholomew, Bartolo

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  Chrysostomos the New of Florina

  Hierarch, Χρυσόστομος ο Νέος Φλωρίνης

  St. Chrysostomos the New, Confessor and Metropolitan of Florina, hierarch of the Genuine Orthodox Church.

  Name days: Chrysostomos, Chrysostom

• Titus the Apostle

  Apostle, Τίτος

  Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Crete.

  Name days: Titos, Titus

• John the Karpathian

  Venerable, Ιωάννης ο Καρπάθιος

  Venerable John of Karpathos, ascetic and spiritual writer.

• Epiphanios and John, Patriarchs of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Επιφάνιος και Ιωάννης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως

  Saints Epiphanios and John the Cappadocian, Archbishops of Constantinople.

• Konstantia of Paphos

  Holy Woman, Κωνσταντία η εν Πάφω

  Saint Konstantia of Paphos in Cyprus, disciple of Saint Hilarion the Great.