9 January
25 commemorations of 9 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 22 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 (Samaia, Sameas, Semeias), (III Kings 12:22) (10th century BC)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at seaἩ Ἁγία Ἀντωνίνα ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena, by the pagansὉ Ἅγιος Λαυρέντιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Peter, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Saints Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Naucratius, and Gregory of Nyssa, and Blessed Theosebia (c. 395)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος Ἐπίσκοπος Σεβαστείαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker of Tarsus (821)Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐστράτιος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βασίλειος καὶ Γρηγόριος οἱ Θαυματουργοίsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko) of Kyiv (Peter in Schema), Wonderworker, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kyiv (1902)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωνᾶς ὁ Γέρονταςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Elder Bessarion of Agathonos (1991)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, Macedonia (1375)Ἡ Ἁγία Παρθένα ἡ Ἐδεσσαίαsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φίλιππος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Paul Nikolsky, Priest (1943)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Mihailo Barbich, Priest of Krtoli (c. 1946)pravoslavie.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.
- Virgin Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon, France (c. 178)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, probably under Decian (c. 250)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin Martyr Marciana of Mauretania, in Mauritania in North Africa (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (c. 686)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀδριανὸς Ἡγούμενος Καντουαρίαςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Berhtwald (Brithwald, Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731)Ὁ Ἅγιος Brithwaldsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fillan (Foelan, Foellan, Foilan), Abbot of Strath Fillan, born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, Saint Kentigerna, and his relative, Saint... (8th century)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.
- Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869)Μνήμη Μεγάλου Σεισμοῦsynaxarion.gr
- Translation of the relics (903) of Saint Judoc, Hermit of Ponthieuholytrinityorthodox.com
The list is January 9 (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.