1 January
28 commemorations of 1 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 14 January of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Basil the Great (330-379)
Feasts
- Feast of the Circumcision of ChristΠεριτομὴ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
Saints
- Martyr Theodotus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Θεόδοτοςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362)oca.org
- Saint Gregory the Elder, Bishop of Nazianzus and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριοςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Emilia, mother of Saints Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosebia (disputed) (375)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας ὁ Καππαδόκηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
- Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, AbbotὉ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιοςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Athanasius Volkhovsky, Bishop of Mogilev and Polotsk, Wonderworker of Poltava (1801)orthochristian.com · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Peter of Tripolis in the Peloponnesus, at Temisi in Asia Minor (1776)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Πελοποννήσιοςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Monastic Martyr Jeremiah Leonov of Valaam (1918)mospat.ru · drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Platon Kulbusch (Kulbush), Bishop of Revel (Tallinn), Estonia, and Michael Blaive and Nicholas Bezhanitsky, Archpriests (1919)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Trapitsyn, Archbishop of Samaradrevo-info.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Hieromartyr Concordius of Spoleto (c. 175)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Thirty soldier-martyrs in Rome, under Diocletian (c. 304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Monastic Martyr Telemachus (Telemakhos, Almachius), hermit who came to Rome from the East and publicly protested against Pagan rites on New Year's Day... (391 or 404)Ὁ Ἅγιος Τηλέμαχος ὁ Μάρτυραςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Basil, Bishop of Aix en Provence (c. 475)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eugendus, fourth Abbot of Condat Abbey in the Jura Mountains (510)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Fanchea of Killeany (Fanchea of Rossory), sister of Saint Enda of Aran (c. 520)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa (533)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Justin, Bishop of Chieti, Italy (c. 540)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Felix, Bishop of Bourges (c. 580)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Connat (Comnata, Comnatan), Abbess of Kildare Abbey in Ireland (c. 590)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maelrhys, a saint on Bardsey Island in Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clarus, Abbot of St. Marcellus Monastery in Vienne, Gaul (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cúan (Mochua, Moncan), Irish abbot, founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland, lived to nearly 100 (752)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Peter of Atroa, Abbot, opponent of iconoclasm (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837)
- Saint William of Dijon (William of Volpiano, Guillaume de Volpiano), Italian monastic reformer and architect (1031)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Icon of the Mother of God "You are a Vineyard" (Georgian: Shen khar venakhi)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Ἀμπελῶνοςoca.org · synaxarion.gr
The list is January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.