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I’ve been reading many threads on this forum about byzantine catholics’ veneration of Saints canonized in the Orthodox Church post-schism. However, all of those were above 15 years old, and I’m curious as to the current state of this issue.
Is it possible for the veneration of those Saints to be more than private? E.g. their icons being present in the iconostasis of a catholic byzantine rite church? If so, what are some examples of it?
Thanks!

If I am reading this right, yes. (There's a good chance I might not be), but there is public devotion in the Catholic Church (especially amongst eastern Catholics) of Post schism Eastern Orthodox Saints. (Off the top of my head, St Gregory Palamas, which I heard an Orthodox priest mistakenly claim the Catholic Church considers Palamism heretical, which isn't quite accurate)

Is it possible today for Byzantine Catholic churches to publicly venerate Orthodox Saints canonized after the schism, like displaying their icons on the iconostasis? If so, could you share some examples of this happening?

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With respect to the veneration of Orthodox saints in EC Churches . . . there is fully liturgical veneration of many saints glorified by the Orthodox Churches within EC churches.

St Photios the Great, Defender of Orthodoxy is formally honoured within the Ruthenian Catholic Church. St Gregory Palamas is honoured liturgically as well and it is quite standard to hear him commemorated on the Second Sunday of Lent - Patriarch Josef Cardinal Slypij in particular promoted his liturgical veneration. Rome itself acknowledged St Gregory's sanctity in 1973 although I've lost my reference for that.- it was first brought to my attention by Fr Archimandrite Sergius Keleher ("Incognitus" here - memory eternal!).

There are icons of all manner of Orthodox saints in St Michael's UGC parish in Welland, Ontario. Also an icon of St Job of Pochayiv in another UGCC pariwh in Alberta. I've also seen the icon of the Pillars of Orthodoxy in a UGCC monastery on the tetrapod . . .

The Syro-Malabar EC church commemorates the feast of the Greek Doctors or Fathers on the same date as the Assyrian Church of the East does. These are none other than . . .Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore the Interpreter Bishop of Mopsuestia and a patriarch of Constantinople by the name of . . . Nestorius.

They also honour other Assyrian saints like Mar Babai the Great and others too.

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Rome itself has sporadically received a number of post-Schism Orthodox saints including St Sergius of Radonezh and St Seraphim of Sarov.In 1904 when the Russian Catholic Orthodox church came into being under the Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Rome recognized ALL of the post-schism Orthodox saints in the Russian Orthodox calendar for liturgical veneration by this EC Church.

And in the diary of Bl Basil Velichkovsky CSsR, he wrote that whenever an Orthodox parish came into communion with Rome, he made it a policy to leave their locally-venerated saints in their calendars - meaning even very locally honoured worthies that had not yet even made it into the more regional Orthodox calendars.

Let's also remember that there continue to be a great plethora of local Roman Catholics saints and beati whose cultus Rome has not yet formally acknowledged but those veneration as such is even encourgaged by Rome. Pope Francis recently approved the local veneration of a Blessed Jean who was honoured locally in Italy for a few hundred years before.

Members of the Anglican Ordinariate too continue to privately honour their own Anglican saints especially King Charles the Martyr who has statues and even churches named for him throughout the Anglican communion.

Alex