5 February
25 commemorations of 5 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 18 February of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Templeoca.org
Saints
- Martyr Agatha of Catania in Sicily (251)Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀγάθη ἡ Μάρτυςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodula of Anazarbus in Cilicia, and with her Martyrs Helladius, Macarius, Boethos, and Evagrius (304)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theodosius of Skopelos in Cilicia (c. 421)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ ἐξ Ἀντιοχείαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (970)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Sabbas the New of Sicily, Abbot (995)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σάββας ἐκ Σικελίαςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Anthony of Athens, at Constantinople (1774)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (Agafia) (1938), and with her Schemamonk Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941), of Belorussiaholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-martyr Alexandra, and martyr Michael (1942)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 Agricola, the eleventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium (420)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Avitus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne, Gaul (520)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Genuinus (Ingenuinus), Bishop of Sabiona, and Albinus (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bertulf of Renty (O.S.B.) (705)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Indract of Glastonbury (c. 710)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Modestus, Bishop of Carinthia and Apostle of Carantania (c. 722)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Vodoaldus (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis), born in Ireland, he went to France and reposed as a hermit near Soissons (c. 725)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (c. 1015)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, wife of the Count of Carinthia in Austria (1024)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.
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Eletsk-Chernigov" (1060)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Ἐλεούσης ἐν Τσέρνιγκωφ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Sicilian-Divnogorsky" ("the Rescuer of the Drowning") (1092)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Σικελιωτίσσης ἐν Ντιβνογκὸρκ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Seeking of the Lost" (17th century)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς ἀναζητήσεως τῶν ἀπολωλότων, ἐν Ρωσίᾳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Metropolitan Michael (Jovanovich) of Serbia (1897)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Valeriu Gafencu of Bessarabia, Romania (1952)orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbess Agnia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1954)pravoslavie.ru
The list is February 5 (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.