30 March
23 commemorations of 30 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 12 April of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. John Climacus (of the Ladder)
Saints
- Prophet Joad (III Kings 13:11), who dwelt in Bethel (10th century BC)orthochristian.com · mospat.ru · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy (1st century)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (304)oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable John the Hermit of Cilicia (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἀσκητὴςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (5th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan of Corinth (1684)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Κορίνθουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (1771)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σωφρόνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἰρκούτσκ καὶ πάσης Σιβηρίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gabriel (Bănulescu-Bodoni), Metropolitan of Kishinev and Khotin, Moldova (1821)pravoslavie.ru
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 Quirinus, the jailer of Pope Alexander I, martyr (c. 117)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Regulus (Rieul), by tradition a Greek, he is honoured as the first Bishop of Senlis in France (c. 260)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre, a monk and then Abbot of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre in France (c. 462)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick in Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Pastor, Bishop of Orleans in France (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tola of Clonard, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Tola in Meath in Ireland (c. 733)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Patto (Pacificus), Bishop of Werden in Germany (c. 788)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clinius, a Greek monk of Monte Cassino, he became Abbot of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were veneratedorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess and Virgin (c. 1015)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (1st century)oca.org
- Translation of the relicts of the Martyr-King Edmund of East Angliaholytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Blessed Matrona (Mylnikova) the Barefoot, of St. Petersburg, Fool for Christ (1911)pravoslavie.ru
The list is March 30 (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.