2 April
19 commemorations of 2 April in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 15 April of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Amphianus (Apphianus) and his brother Aedesius, of Patara, Lycia (306)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Αἰδέσιος καὶ Ἀμφιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine (Theodosia of Tyre) (308)Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοδώρα ἡ Παρθενομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πολύκαρπος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker, in Ascalon, Palestine (778)Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Titus the Wonderworker (9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Τίτος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint George of Atsquri, Georgia (9th-10th centuries)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀζκουρίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Sabbas, Archbishop of Sourozh, Crimea (11th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σάββας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σουρώζsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gregory, ascetic of Nicomedia (1240)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος ὁ ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ ἀσκήσαςsynaxarion.gr · 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 Urban of Langres, sixth Bishop of Langres in France, patron-saint of vine dressers (ca. 390)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Abundius, of Greek origin, he became Bishop of Como in the north of Italy (469)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victor of Capua, Bishop of Capua in the south of Italy and a Church writer (554)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nicetius of Lyon (Nizier), in Gaul (573)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Λυώνsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Brónach (Bromana), called the Virgin of Glen-Seichis, now Kilbronach in Irelandorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Musa, a child in Rome who was granted visions, mentioned by her contemporary by St Gregory the Great (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Lonochilus (Longis, Lenogisil), priest who founded a monastery in Maine in France (653), and Agnofleda, a holy virgin (638)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland (870)Ἡ Ἁγία Εὔα ἡ Ὁσιοπαρθενομάρτυρας ἡ Νέαsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Constantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I), King of Scotland, slain in a battle against heathen invaders of his country and honoured as a martyr, buried... (877)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rufus, a hermit at Glendalough in Irelandorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Drogo, a monk at Fleury-sur-Loire in France and afterwards at Baume-les-Messieurs (10th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
The list is April 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.