23 January
29 commemorations of 23 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 February of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus (312)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κλήμης καὶ Ἀγαθάγγελος οἱ Μάρτυρεςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ascholius, Bishop of Thessaloniki (383)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀχόλιος Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκηςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Eusebius the Recluse of Mount Coryphe near Antioch (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐσέβιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Salamanes the Silent (Salamanes the Hesychast) of the Euphrates (c. 400)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σαλαμάνης ὁ Ἡσυχαστήςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Mausimas the Syrian, Priest near Cyrrhus (before 423)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μαϋσιμᾶς ὁ Σύροςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy Two Martyrs of Parium, near Cyzicus and Lampsacus, in Asia MinorΟἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Dionysius of Olympus and Mount Athos (1541)ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gennadius of Kostroma (1565)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεννάδιος ἐκ Λιθουανίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich, Kostroma Oblast (16th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξανδρος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Barlaam, founder of Chikoisk Monastery, Siberia (1846)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Bulashov, Abbot of Holy Transfiguration Guslitsky Monastery , Moscow (1938)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Anatolius Grisjuk, Bishop of Odessa (1938)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνατόλιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ὀδησσοῦsynaxarion.gr
- New Virgin Martyrs Eudokia and Ecaterine of Moscow (Ekaterine) (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Virgin Martyr Militsa of Moscow (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.
- Saint Emerentiana, a martyr in Rome (305)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amasius of Teano, Bishop of Teano in central Italy (356)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Severian and Aquila, a husband and wife martyred in Julia Caesarea in Mauritania in North Africaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Martyrius (Martory), a hermit in the Abruzzi in Italy (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ormond (Armand), monk of the monastery of Saint Mairé in France, where he became abbot (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ildefonsus (Alphonse, Alonzo), Archbishop of Toledo from 657 (667)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Colman of Lismore, Abbot of Lismore Abbey in Ireland and also a bishop (702)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lufthild, a saint honoured near Cologne in Germany, where she lived as an anchoress (c. 850)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maimbod (Mainboeuf), martyred by pagans while preaching to peasants near Kaltenbrunn in Alsace, now in France (c. 880)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 Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Saints of KostromaΣύναξις πάντων τῶν ἐν Καστρόμᾳ τῆς Ρωσίας διαλαμψάντων Ἁγίωνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics (1786) of Saint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam Monastery (1881)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite John Krestiankin of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (2006)pravoslavie.ru
The list is January 23 (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.