Orthodox calendar: October 18 - celebration in honor of the All-Russian saints Peter, Alexy, Jonah, Philip and Hermogenestranslated

20th Sunday after Pentecost.

Today, October 18, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of MC during divine services. Kharitins (304); svtt. Moscow Peter, Theognostus, Alexius, Cyprian, Photius, Jonah, Gerontius, Joasaph, Macarius, Philip, Job, Hermogenes, Tikhon, Peter, Philaret, Innocent and Macarius; prpp. Damian the presbyter, healer (1071), Jeremiah (c. 1070) and Matthew (c. 1085) the seers, Pechersk, in the Near Caves; St. Kharitins, book. Lithuanian, who labored in Novgorod (1281); sschmch. Dionysius, bishop Alexandrian (264–265); mts. Mamelkhwa of Persia (c. 344); St. Gregory of Khandzti (861) (Georgian); St. Gavriil Igoshkina Spanish (1959).

There is no post.

The celebration on one day in honor of the All-Russian saints Peter, Alexy and Jonah was established by Patriarch Job on October 5, 1596. Saint Philip was numbered among them in 1875, at the request of Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow (March 31 and September 23), and Saint Hermogen - in 1913.

Celebrating the memory of the saints on one day, the Church gives each of them equal honor, as the heavenly patrons of the city of Moscow and prayer books for our Fatherland.

Troparion of the Moscow Saints, tone 4:...