Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall

Eastern Orthodox Christian theologian, historian, philosopher, and cultural commentator.

            

Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome

ADALSINDIS of BÈZE, a sister of St. Waldalenus (15th May), and abbess of a convent near Bèze in Burgundy (France). St. Adalsindis reposed circa 680.

ÆTHELWINE (ETHELWINE, ETHELWIN, ELWIN) of LINDSEY, (Eighth Century), the second Bishop of Lindsey, and a devoted friend of St. Ecgberht (24th April). St. Elwin resigned his See at the beginning of the eighth century and accompanied St. Egbert to Ireland, reposing shortly thereafter.

ALDWYN of PARTNEY, (Eighth Century), St. Aldwyn was an Abbot of Partney in the present-day East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Nothing further is known of this saint.

ALEXANDER I, sixth Pope of Rome from circa 108 until his martyrdom circa 116–119. Pope St. Alexander baptised St. Balbina of Rome (31st March), and whilst imprisoned and awaiting execution, converted the fellow captives who are commemorated as the Martyrs of Ostia on 10th April.

ALEXANDER, EVENTIUS, and THEODULUS, Martyrs of Rome, three martyred priests who were burned and beheaded in Rome circa 113. Their relics were later interred in the church of Santa Sabina in Rome.

ANSFRIED (ANSFRID, ANSFRIDUS) of UTRECHT, a Count of Brabant, Courtier, and soldier for Holy Roman Emperors Otto III (r. 996–1002) and Henry II (r. 1014–1024). In his mid-thirties, St. Ansfrid, feeling a call to monastic life, founded the Abbey of St. Michael (Thorn Abbey / abdij van Thorn / Stift Thorn) in Limburg (present-day Netherlands) for his wife and daughter. He then founded the Abbey of St. Michael in Heiligenberg near present-day Leusden, the Netherlands (moved circa 1050 to Utrecht and re-named St. Paul’s Abbey) with a view to settling there and living out his days as a monk. However, Emperor Otto III had different plans and made St. Ansfrid nineteenth Archbishop of Utrecht. Towards the end of his life, St. Ansfrid became blind, retired to Heiligenberg Abbey, and finished his life as a monk. St. Ansfridus reposed in 1010.

GLUVIAS (GLYWYS), (Sixth Century), St. Gluvias was a son of SS. Gwynllyw (29th March), King of Glywysing in South Wales, and Gwladus (Gladys) (29th March), and a brother of St. Cadoc (24th January). He was also a grandson of King St. Brychan of Brycheiniog (6th April), and a nephew of St. Petroc (4th June). St. Gluvias founded a monastery in Cornwall England where there is a church dedicated to him.

JUVENAL of NARNI, the first Bishop of Narni, in present-day Umbria, Italy. St. Juvenal reposed circa 373, it is possible he was martyred, but records are vague.

PHILIP of ZELL, an Anglo-Saxon pilgrim, who returning from Rome, settled as a hermit near Worms in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate Germany. St. Philip reposed circa 770.

SCANNAL, a disciple of St. Columba of Iona (9th June) and missionary in Cell-Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, Ireland. St. Scannal was remarkable for his zeal and success in evangelisation, he reposed circa 563.

Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox, and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said “The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies”.

Details of British Saints excerpted from Orthodox Saints of the British Isles.
Details of continental saints from these sources.

In many cases there are several spelling versions of the names of saints from the British Isles. I use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography version as the primary version with the more prevalent version in parenthesis e.g. Ceadda (Chad) of Lichfield.