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10 January

23 commemorations of 10 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 23 January of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395)St. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)

Feasts

Saints

  • Blessed Theosebia the Deaconess, sister of Saints Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (385)Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοσεβία ἡ Διακόνισσαoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, Cappadocia (c. 394)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Νύσσηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Ammon, Monk of Nitria in Egypt (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀμμώνιοςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Marcian the Presbyter of Constantinople (471)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρκιανὸς Πρεσβύτερος καὶ Οἰκονόμος τῆς Μεγάλης Ἐκκλησίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Domitian (Dometian), Bishop of Melitene and Wonderworker (601)Ὁ Ὅσιος Δομετιανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Μελιτηνῆςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Paul, founder and Abbot of Obnora Monastery, Vologda (1429)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Macarius (Makarios) of Pisemsk, Kostroma, and Obnora Monastery in Vologda, founder and Abbot of Pisma Monastery (15th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Antipas of Calapodesti in Romania, Mount Athos, and Valaam Monastery, Hieroschemamonk (1882)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντίπας ὁ Ἀθωνίτηςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοφάνης ὁ Ἐρημίτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Smaragda Onishchenko of Nizhyn (1945)johnsanidopoulos.com

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Venerable Martyr Ephraim, Elder of Obnora Monastery, Vologda, and six monks of Obnora whose relics are incorrupt (1538)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Zenobius Sutormin, Priest (1920)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Peter Uspensky, Archpriest of Radushino (Zaraisk) (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Anatole (Anatolius) Grisyuk, Metropolitan of Odessa and Cherson (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Arsenia Dobronravova, Abbess of the Holy Resurrection–St. Theodore Convent (Shuisk) (1939)holytrinityorthodox.com · 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.

  • Saint Pétrone (Petronius), monk at Lérins Abbey, then Bishop of Die in France (463)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Diarmaid the Just (Dermot, Diarmis), spiritual father of St Kieran of Clonmacnois and later founder of a monastery on Innis-Clotran Island, Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Tómméne (Thomian, Toimen), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sæthryth (Sethrid), Abbess (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint John Camillus the Good, Bishop of Milan, he worked against Arianism and Monothelitism (669)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Peter Urseolus (Pietro I Orseolo), Doge of Venice, later became a monk at the Monastery of Cuxa in Spain (987)orthodoxengland.org.uk

The list is January 10 (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.

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