2 February
23 commemorations of 2 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 15 February of the civil calendar.
In the map: Meeting of the Lord (Hypapante): February 2
Feasts
- The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple (also The Meeting of the Lord, or Hypapante), 40 days after His sacred birthἩ Ὑπαπαντὴ τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in CappadociaὉ Ἅγιος Ἀγαθόδωρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1650)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰορδάνης ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Hierodeacon, of Constantinople (1676)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Anthimos (Vagianos) of Chios (1960)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944)Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ἐκ Γεωργίαςsynaxarion.gr
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 Apronian, a Roman executioner who converted to Orthodoxy when taking the martyr St Sisinnius before the tribunal and was then himself martyred (c. 304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Flosculus (Flou), Bishop of Orleans in France (c. 480)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury (619)Roman Martyrology · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adalbert I of Ostrevent (Adalbald), founder of Marchiennes Abbey (652)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Feock, a saint recalled by a church dedication in Cornwallorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adeloga (Hadeloga), a daughter of Charles Martel, first Abbess of Kitzingen in Germany (c. 745)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Burchard of Würzburg, first Bishop of Wurzburg (754)
- Martyrs of Ebsdorf, martyred at the Battle of Luneberg Heath near Ebsdorf, Saxony (880)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Columbanus, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit near the church of Saint-Bavo in Ghent in Belgium (959)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.
- Repose of Schema-monk Seraphim of Valaam Monastery (1860)pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos the Hypapante of Kalamata, patron saint of KalamataΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ὑπαπαντῆςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Apekois" (Ypakoe), at the Church of the Hypapante on KalymnosΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἀπεκοῆςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Dreadful Bee", at Leivadi on KythiraΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Κακιᾶς Μέλισσαςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos of GoumenissaΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Γουμενίσσηςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "'Flevariotissa' or 'Libya'", at Mesaria on the island of AstypalaiaΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Φλεβαριωτίσσης ἢ Λιβύηςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Flevariotissa", at Ampelakia on Salamis IslandΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Φλεβαριωτίσσηςsynaxarion.gr
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Chrysaliniotissa", in Leukosia, CyprusΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Χρυσαλινιωτίσσηςsynaxarion.gr
The list is February 2 (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.