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18 January

29 commemorations of 18 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 31 January of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Athanasius the Great (c. 296-373)St. Cyril of Alexandria

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Ephraim the Lesser (the Philosopher) of Georgia (1101)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Cyril, Abbot of Kiev (1146)pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Joachim I, Patriarch of Tarnovo (Turnovo, Trnovo) and Bulgaria (1248)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωακεὶμ ἐκ Βουλγαρίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Schemamonk Cyril and Schemanun Maria (both c. 1337), parents of Saint Sergius of Radonezhoca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Maximus the New of Serbia, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1516), son of Saint Stefan Branković the Blind, Despot of SerbiaὉ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος Ἐπίσκοπος Οὐγγροβλαχίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Athanasius, Monk of Valaam Monastery and Abbot of Syamzha (Syadem, Syandema, Syandemsk, Syandemsky), Vologda Oblast (1550)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ἐκ Ρωσίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Righteous Athanasius, Fool for Christ of Novolotsk (Navolotsk) Monastery, Karelia (16th-17th centuries)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Christophoros "Papoulakos" (Panayiotopoulos), missionary monk and defender of Orthodoxy in the new Kingdom of Greece (1861)orthochristian.com · ec-patr.org
  • Venerable Alexis Shushania, Hieromonk of Teklati, Georgia (1923)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest (1919)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Eugene Isadsky, Priest (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Zubkovich, Archpriest of Smolevichi, Belorussia (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Krasovsky, Sergius Lebedev, and Alexander Rousinov, Priests (1938)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.

  • Virgin Martyr Prisca, venerated from ancient times in Rome, where a church is dedicated to her on the Aventine (1st or 3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyrs Archelais, Thecla and Susanna, three holy virgins, at Salerno (293)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Volusianus of Tours, a married senator who was chosen Bishop of Tours in France and shortly after driven out by Arian Visigoths (496)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Liberata of Como, a holy virgin in Como in Italy where with her sister Saint Faustina she founded the convent of Santa Margarita (580)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Leobardus the Recluse of Marmoutier, Gaul (593)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Ninnidh of Inishmacsaint (Inismacsaint), Ireland (6th century)pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Deicolus, one of the twelve disciples to accompany St. Columbanus in his missionary enterprise (625)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ulfrid (Wolfred, Wulfrid, Wilfrid), missionary in Germany and Sweden, martyred for destroying an image of Thor (1028)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.

  • Slaying of Bishop Paul de Ballester-Convallier of Mexico (1984)pravoslavie.ru

The list is January 18 (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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