26 June
18 commemorations of 26 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Venerable David of Thessalonica (David the Dendrite) (540)Ὁ Ὅσιος Δαβὶδ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκηorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable John, Bishop of Gothia in the Crimea (c. 787)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης Ἐπίσκοπος Γοτθίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Anthion, asceticὉ Ὅσιος Ἀνθίωνsynaxarion.gr · apostoliki-diakonia.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal, then Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (1385)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σουζδαλίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr David of St. Anne’s Skete on Mount Athos, martyred in Thessaloniki (1813)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δαβὶδ ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ἐκ Κυδωνιῶνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr George Stepanyuk, Priest (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · 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 John and Paul, and Galicanus, martyrs who suffered in Rome (c. 361-363)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Παῦλος οἱ Μάρτυρεςorthodoxengland.org.uk · synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Vigilius of Trent, a Roman noble who studied in Athens, he became Bishop of Trent in Italy and more or less succeeded in uprooting paganism (405)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maxentius (Maixent), born in Agde in France, he became a monk at a monastery in Poitou, now called Saint-Maixent, where he later became abbot (c. 515)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Barbolenus, a monk at Luxeuil Abbey and afterwards first Abbot of St Peter's, later St Maur-des-Fossés, in the north of France (c. 677)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Perseveranda (Pecinna, Pezaine), a holy virgin from Spain (c. 726)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Salvius and Superius (c. 768)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Corbican, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit in Holland and helped simple people (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Pelagius of Córdoba (Pelayo), a young boy from Asturias in Spain left as a hostage with the Moors in Cordoba (925)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hermogius, founder of Labrugia Monastery in Spanish Galicia (c. 942)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.
- Translation of the relics of Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brynach), Abbot of Braunton, Devonshire (6th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · oodegr.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1569) of Saint Tikhon of Lukhov (1503)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics (1995) of St. Nilus of Stolobny (1554)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is June 26 (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.