Synaxis of saints
Synaxis Saints of Lipetsk
установлен в 2010 году
Also known as: Собор Липецких святых, Собор святых, в земле Липецкой просиявших
The common commemoration of the saints of the Lipetsk land — hierarchs, monastic saints, New Martyrs and Confessors — kept on 10 (23) September since 2010.
The Synaxis of the Saints of Lipetsk commemorates the saints whose life and witness are connected with the Lipetsk region of Russia. The feast was established in 2010 with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill at the request of Bishop Nikon of Lipetsk and Yelets, and is kept every year on 10 (23) September, the feast of Hieromartyr Uar (Shmarin), the first Bishop of Lipetsk (†1938). It was first celebrated in the Lipetsk diocese on 23 September 2010, and on 29 July 2017 the Holy Synod approved the text of its service.
The Synaxis includes saints of many ages and ranks: hierarchs such as Alexis and Jonah of Moscow, Mitrophan of Voronezh, Tikhon of Zadonsk and Theophan the Recluse; ascetics such as John of Sezenovo, Ambrose and Nectarius of Optina and Silouan the Athonite; and many New Martyrs and Confessors of the 20th century, among them Bishop Uar (Shmarin), Archbishops Peter (Zverev) and Zacharias (Lobov), Metropolitan Cyril (Smirnov) and Confessor Sergius Pravdolyubov.