title: April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  April 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 23
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For April 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 9.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Holy Apostle Nathaniel of the Twelve (Bartholomew) (1st century)
  * Apostles Apelles, Luke (not the Evangelist), and Clement, of the Seventy (1st century)
  * Martyr Leonides of Alexandria, Bishop (202)
  * Martyr Nearchus, by fire (3rd century)
  * Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia (613) (see also: June 15 - Translation; June 16 - Uncovering)
  * Saint Vitalis of Gaza, monk of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza (609-620) (see also: January 11)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Hieromartyr Soter, Pope of Rome (c. 174)
  * Martyrs Epipodius of Lyons, by beheading (c. 177)
  * Saint Gaius, born in Dalmatia, became Pope of Rome, martyred with members of his family (296) (see also: August 11)
  * Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536) (see also: April 17 - East)
  * Saint Leo of Sens, Bishop of Sens in France for twenty-three years (541)
  * The Two Brothers Arwald, sons of Arwald, the last Jutish King of the Isle of Wight, put to death by soldiers of King Ceadwalla, then a pagan, on the day after their baptism (686)
  * Saint Opportuna of Montreuil, sister of St Chrodegang, Bishop of Séez, Abbess at the convent of Monteuil (c. 770)
  * Saint Senorina, a Galician abbess who served as the abbess of the Benedictine convent of St John of Venaria (Vieyra) (982)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Saint Ananias of Malles, first monk, renovator and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Exakousti in the village of Malles in Ierapetra, Crete (1907)
  * Saint Ekaterina (Malkov-Panina), fool-for-Christ, of the Holy Dormition Pukhtitsa Convent in Estonia (1968)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Eustathius Malahovsky, Priest (1918)
  * New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (Platon Jovanovic), Bishop of Banja Luka (1941) (see also: May 5)
  * Martyr Demetrius Vlasenkov (1942)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Translation of the relics (1834) of St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov (1138)
  * Repose of Blessed fool-for-Christ Athanasius Andreyevich Saiko of Orel (1967)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Holy Apostle Nathaniel of the Twelve (Bartholomew).
  * Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia.
  * Saint Vitalis of Gaza, monk of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Gaza.
  * Hieromartyr Soter, Pope of Rome.
  * Pope Saint Gaius.
  * Agapitus I, Pope of Rome.
  * St. Senorina of Basto.
  * St. Platon of Banja Luka.
  * St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov
  