8 January
42 commemorations of 8 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 January of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christorthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Prophet Shemaiah (10th century BC)Ὁ Προφήτης Σαμέαςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrs Julian and his wife, Basilissa, and with them Celsius and his mother, Marcionilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison... (283–305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανός, Βασίλισσα, Κέλσιος, Ἀναστάσιος καὶ Ἀντώνιος οἱ Μάρτυρεςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)Ὁ Ἅγιος Καρτέριος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Elias the Hermit, Wonderworker of Egypt (4th century)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Theophilus the Deacon, and Martyr Helladius, in Libya (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόφιλος καὶ Ἑλλάδιος οἱ Μάρτυρεςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Atticus, Patriarch of Constantinople (425)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀττικὸς Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Domnica the Righteous of Constantinople (c. 474)Ἡ Ὁσία Δομνίκηoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Agathon of Egypt, Monk (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀγάθωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theodore of Constantinople, founder and abbot of the Monastery of Chora (c. 595)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος Κτήτορας καὶ Ἡγούμενος τῆς μονῆς τῆς Χώραςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable George the Chozebite, Abbot (7th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος ὁ Χοζεβίτηςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · jp-newsgate.net · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cyrus (Kyros), Patriarch of Constantinople (714)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύρος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Abo of Tiflis, the Perfumer, of Baghdad, at Tbilisi, Georgia (786)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀβὼ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (820)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory of Ochrid, Bishop of Moesia (1012)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Μοισίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Gregory the Wonderworker of the Kiev Near Caves (1093)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας καὶ Θαυματουργόςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gregory the Recluse of the Kiev Caves (14th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ἔγκλειστοςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Macarius (Makris) of Vatopedi on Mount Athos and Pantocratoros monastery in Constantinople, Abbot (1430)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος Μακρήςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Paisius of Uglich, Igumen of the Protection monastery, near Uglich (1504)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ἐκ Ρωσίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Elder Isaiah of Valaam Monastery (1914)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡσαΐαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Isidore, Priest, and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats), Estonia, slain by German Catholic Latins in (1472)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶ 72 Μάρτυρεςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Victor Usov, Priest (1937)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyr Michael Novoselov (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Michael Rostov, Priest, confessor, of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1941)holytrinityorthodox.com
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.
- Saint Patiens, venerated as the fourth Bishop of Metz and patron-saint of that city (2nd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Lucian (priest, the "Apostle of Beauvais"), and martyrs Maximian and Julian, in Beauvais in the north of France (290)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eugenian (Egemoine), Bishop of Autun, a staunch defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severin, Bishop of Cologne (c. 397)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Severinus of Noricum, Monk of Göttweig Abbey, Apostle of Austria (Austria and Bavaria) (482)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεβερίνοςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ergnad (Ercnacta), born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun by Saint Patrick (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maximus, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he attended Councils in Rome under Pope Symmachus (511)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Frodobert, a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer and asceticism (673)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nathalan of Aberdeenshire (678)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Erhard, Bishop of Regensburg, Bavaria (c. 686)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Albert of Cashel, English laborer in Ireland and Bavaria (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Holy Virgin Gudula (Goule), patroness of Brussels, Belgium (712)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Pega of Peakirk, an anchoress in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and the sister of Saint Guthlac (719)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Garibaldus (Gaubald), first Bishop of Regensburg (762)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Æthelhelm (Athelm), the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop of Canterbury (926)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wulfsige III (Wulsin), a monk whom Saint Dunstan loved as a son, became Abbot of Westminster in 980, and Bishop of Sherborne in 993 (1002)orthodoxengland.org.uk
The list is January 8 (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.