Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Dometian, Bishop of MeliteneHierarch
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Melitene.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- St Gregory of Nyssa life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Guided by a holy family and refined through hardship, Gregory became a profound teacher of the Trinity, the spiritual life, and humanity’s endless journey into the inexhaustible goodness of God.
- Era
- c. 335–c. 395
- Region
- Cappadocia
- Category
- Hierarch, Church Father, and theologian
- Feast
- January 10
- Markianos, Priest and Oikonomos of the Great Church
What is known
Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- St Theophan the Recluse
What is known
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 10 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 23 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.