Synaxis

For example, services on the Feast of Theophany (the revelation of the Trinity at the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan) would be held at Hagia Sophia; then, the next day, a Synaxis was observed in honor of St. John the Forerunner at the church dedicated to him.

Each individual saint may have his or her own separate feast day, but they are all commemorated together on their synaxis.

Other synaxes are celebrated on the Paschal cycle, moving backward or forward in the calendar according to the date of Pascha (Easter) that year.

[citation needed] The following are Synaxes which are universally observed in the Rite of Constantinople: There are also synaxes which have been composed for local observance: A synaxis is a group of churchmen (especially in the Orthodox Church) who would otherwise compose a synod but lack an officiating patriarch.

[citation needed] The most influential and famous of these was the monk Gennadios, better known as Georgios Scholarios, who later became Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.