August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
August 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 24
All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10.
Feasts
Apodosis of the Dormition.Saints
- Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon
- Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary
- Martyrs Severus, Memnon the Centurion, and 38 others, of Thrace
- Martyr Lupus of Novae, slave of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
- Saints Eutychius and Florentius of Nursia.
- Saint Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Saint Anthony, Bishop of Sardis
- Saint Nicholas the Sicilian, ascetic of Mt. Neotaka in Euboea.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Quiriacus, Maximus Archelaus and Companions
- Martyrs Minervius, Eleazar and Companions, in Lyon in France - eight children are included in their number
- Saint Tydfil, venerated in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, where she was slain by the heathen
- Saint Victor of Vita, born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either Bishop there or in Utica
- Saint Éogan of Ardstraw
- Saints Flavian of Autun, the twenty-first Bishop of Autun in France
- Saints Altigianus and Hilarinus, two monks killed by the Saracens at Saint-Seine in France
- Martyrs Æbbe the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham Priory, Northumbria, and her companions
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Haralambos of Panagia Kalyviani convent, the newly-revealed
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Ephraim, Bishop of Selenginsk, and John Vostorgov, Archpriest, of Moscow, and Martyr Nicholas Varzhansky
- New Hieromartyrs Paul Gaidai and John Karabanov, Priests