27 January
33 commemorations of 27 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 February of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. John Chrysostom (c. 349-407)
Saints
- Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Αἰγύπτιοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Marciana (Markiane) (Euphemia) the Empress, wife of Emperor Justin I the Elder (r. 518-527), interred in the Church of the Holy ApostlesἩ Ἁγία Μαρκιανὴ ἡ Βασίλισσαoca.org · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tamassos, CyprusὉ Ἅγιος Δημητριανὸς ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἐπίσκοπος Ταμασσοῦ Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Claudinus, monasticὉ Ὅσιος Κλαυδίνοςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Elias II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (797)
- Saint Ashot I Kurapalates of Iberia (Askiot), first Bagrationi Prince of Georgia, martyred (830)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἄσκιοτ ὁ Βασιλέαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Τίτος ἐκ Κιέβουsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Clement the Stylite of Mount Ságmata, Boeotia (12th century)oca.org
- Saint Demetrius Klepinine, Priest of Paris (1944)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John the Almsgiver, of Amphiale, Piræus (1966)imoph.org
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev of Voronezh (1929)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Ζβέρεφsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromislov, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1940)
- New Confessor Anna Ivashkina of Ryazan (1948)
- Venerable New Confessor Leonty Stasevich of Ivanovo, Archimandrite (1972)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Leontius the Mystic of Ternopil and Jablechna monastery, Poland (1972)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 Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (c. 150)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Julian of Le Mans, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans in France (3rd century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack in the persecution of Diocletian (303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Avitus, venerated in the Canary Islands as their Apostle and first Bishop, martyred in AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions; and Datius (Dativus), Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions (c. 500)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maurus (Marius, Maur, May), founder of a monastery in Bodon (Bobacum) in France (c. 555)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Natalis of Ulster, a monastic founder in the north of Ireland, he worked with Saint Columba (564)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lupus of Châlons, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saone, famous for his charity to the afflicted (c. 610)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome from 657 to 672Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Emerius, founder and first Abbot of St. Stephen of Bañoles in Catalonia in Spain (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Candida, mother of Saint Emerius, anchoress at the monastery of St. Stephen of Bañoles in Spain (c. 798)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch (800)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Theodoric II of Orleans, monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France, became Bishop of Orleans (1022)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alruna of Cham (1045), reclusepravenc.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Translation of the relics (438) of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου Χρυσοστόμου Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-nun Margarita (Lakhtionova) of Diveyevo Monastery (1997)pravoslavie.ru
The list is January 27 (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.