Twentieth week after Pentecost, Sunday, October 18, 2026: what will happen in the church?translated

On October 18, 2026, on the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, the Church celebrates the Council of Moscow Saints. Since 2017, on this day we remember 17 saints who served in Moscow: Peter, Theognostus, Alexius, Cyprian, Photius, Jonah, Gerontius, Joasphus, Macarius, Philip, Job, Hermogeen, Tikhon, Peter, Philaret, Innocent and Macarius.

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Sunday, October 18, 2026, Holy Hierarchs of Moscow and All Rus', Wonderworkers

The veneration of Moscow saints was first established in 1596 by the first Russian Patriarch Job. Then the Council included Metropolitans Peter (1326), Alexy (1378), Photius (1431) and Jonah (1461), to whom Metropolitan Philip (1569) was added in 1875, and Patriarch Hermogenes (1612) in 1913. The inclusion of other patriarchs and metropolitans in the Council occurred after their canonization. Only in 1988 was a contemporary of Tsar Ivan canonized...