Full Great Intercession

During Divine Liturgy, Orthros, or Paraklesis, one may hear the Priest or Deacon call out what is known as the Full Great Intercession. It is provided here, in part, for your edification

The Theotokos

Through the intercessions of our all-immaculate Lady Theotokos and every-virgin Mary

The Baptist

By the might of the precious and life-giving Cross; by the protection of the honorable bodiless Powers of Heaven; at the supplication of the honorable, glorious prophet, forerunner and Baptist John

The Apostles

Of the holy, glorious, all-laudable apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the holy apostles

Great Hierarchs

Of our fathers among the saints, great hierarchs, and ecumenical teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom

Patriarchs of Alexandria

Of our fathers among the saints, Athanasios, Cyril, John the Merciful, patriarchs of Alexandria

The Wonderworkers

Nicholas of Myra, Spyridon of Trimythous, and Nektarios of Pentapolis, the Wonderworkers

Enlighteners of North America

Nicholai of Zhicha, who labored in America, Innocent, Evangelizer of Alaska, and Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow, enlighteners of North America; John, Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco, and Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn

Great-Martyrs

Of the holy, glorious, great-martyrs, George the Trophy-bearer, Demtrios the Myrrh-streamer, Theodore the Soldier, Theodore the General, and Menas the Wonderworker

Hieromartyrs

Of the hieromartyrs Ignatios the God-bearer of Antioch, Charalampos and Eleutherios, and Juvenaly of Illiamna

Great Women Martyrs

Of the holy, glorious great women martyrs, Thekla, Barbara, Anastasia, Katherine, Kyriaki, Photeini, Marina, Paraskeva and Irene

Martyrs

Of the holy, glorious, right-victorious martyrs, especially Peter the Aleut

Ascetics

Of our venerable and God-bearing father who shone in the ascetic life, Anthony the Great, Seraphim of Sarov, and Herman of Alaska

Holy Ancestors

Of the holy and righteous ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

Saints

and of all the saints

Daily Saints

Any saints we commemorate that day.