25 February
18 commemorations of 25 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 March of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Tarasius of Constantinople
Saints
- Martyr Alexander, at Marcianopolis, Thracia (c. 305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Δριζιπάρῳ τῆς Θράκηςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Anthony, by being burned aliveὉ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Theodore, Fool-for-Christecclesia.gr
- Hieromartyr Reginus, Bishop of the isle of Skopelos (355)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ρηγίνος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Aipeia, CyprusὉ Ἅγιος Μάρκελλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Σόλων τῆς Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Paphnutius, Monk of Kephala, contemporary of Saint Anthony the Great (4th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (806)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ταράσιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Sylvester Olshevsky, Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1920)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Vinogradov, Priest (1938)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Virgin Martyr Mstislava Fokinoi (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk, Priest of Laskov (Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Troitsky, Priest (1945)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.
- Saints Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Aldetrudis (Adeltrudis) of Maubeuge Abbey (c. 696)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Victor, a monk at St. Gall, Switzerland who became a hermit in the Vosges in France where he reposed (995)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 Blessed Pashenka of Nizhny Novgorod (1934)pravoslavie.ru
The list is February 25 (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.