October 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 24
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on November 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 10.
Saints
Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem- Venerable Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great Venerable Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Saint Macarius the Roman, of Mesopotamia.
- Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, Constantinople.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Servandus and Germanus, sons of St Marcellus of Léon in Spain, martyred in Cadiz while on their way to Tangiers under arrest
- Saint Amon of Toul, Second Bishop of Toul in France, the successor of St Mansuetus
- Saint Verus, third Bishop of Salerno in Italy
- Saint Severin of Cologne, third known Bishop of Cologne and a prominent opponent of Arianism
- Saint Severinus of Bordeaux, Bishop of Bordeaux in France
- Saint Clether, one of the twenty-four children of Saint Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog
- Saint Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher, martyred at Pavia in Italy
- Saint John of Syracuse, Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily from 595
- Saint Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen
- Saint Benedict of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who fled to Gaul and built a hermitage near Poitiers
- Saint Syra, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey, from where she was asked by Bishop Ragnebaud to become Abbess of Châlons-sur-Marne
- Saint Leothadius, Abbot of Moissac Abbey in the south of France, later he became Bishop of Auch
- Saint Oda of Amay, Belgium ], foundress of churches
- Saint Domitius, hermit near Amiens in France
- Saint Elfleda, a princess who lived as an anchoress in Glastonbury Abbey; she was revered by St Dunstan
- Saint Ethelfleda, Abbess of Romsey Abbey
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Elisha of Lauryshava Monastery in Belarus, Igumen
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hieromartyr Eusebius, Archbishop of Shadrinsk
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ambartsumov, Archpriest, of Moscow
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Agafonnikov, Alexander Soloviev, Nicholas Archangelsky, Emilian Goncharov and Sozon Reshetilov, Priests
- Venerable Euphrosyne Timofeeva
- Hieromartyr Constantin Sârbu, Priest
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod