3 July
37 commemorations of 3 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 16 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyr Hyacinth the Cubicularius, of Caesarea in Cappadocia (108)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὑάκινθος ὁ Κουβικουλάριος (Θαλαμηπόλος)orthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
- Saint Anatolius of Laodicea, Bishop of Laodicea, and his successor, St. Eusebius (3rd century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Mark and Mocius (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μᾶρκος καὶ Μωκιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), Constantinople (c. 430)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνατόλιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
- Saint Isaias the Solitary, of Scetis and Palestine (491)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Symeon the Stylite (the third stylite), of Cilicia (6th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodota (712)Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοδότη ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint George the Godbearer, of the Black Mountain, teacher of St. George of Mount Athos (1068)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Basil the Bishop of Ryazan (1295)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerable Anatolius, recluse, of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀνατόλιος ὁ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ (Ρῶσος)pravenc.ru · synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Anatolius, recluse, of the Far Caves in Kiev (13th century)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), holy princes of Yaroslavl (13th century)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Basil (Kalika or Koleka), Archbishop of Novgorod (1352)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints John and Longinus, Wonderworkers of Yarensk, Solovki (1544-1545)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed John of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1589)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ἐκ Μόσχας (Ρῶοος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nicodemus of Khozyuga (Kozhe Lake), monk of Kozhaezersk Monastery (1640)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Blessed Michael, Herodion, Basil, and Thomas, Fools-for-Christ, of Solvychegodsk (17th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μιχαὴλ καὶ Θωμὰς οἱ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλοί ἐν Σολβισεγκόντσκ (Ρῶσοι)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Joachim the New Godbeaerer, of Notenon Monastery in Achaia (17th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωακεὶμ ὁ Νέος ὁ Θεοφόροςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Euphrosine (Viaziemska) of Kolupanovo, Aleksin, Fool-for-Christ (1855)drevo-info.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Monk-martyr Gerasimus the New, of Carpenision, at Constantinople (1812)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεράσιμος ὁ Νέος ὁ Καρπενησιώτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- New Hieromartyr Anthony (Bystrov), Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk (1931)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · 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 Dathus (Datus), Bishop of Ravenna in Italy (190)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Irenaeus, a deacon, and Mustiola, a noble lady, martyred in Chiusi in Tuscany in Italy under Aurelian for ministering to other martyrs and burying... (273)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Heliodorus of Altino, first bishop of Altinum (Altino) (c. 390)orthodoxengland.org.uk · saint.gr
- St. Byblig of Carnarvon (Biblig, Peblig, Piblig, Publicius), Gwynedd, in Walesorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Germanus, Bishop of the Isle of Man and Enlightener of Peel, nephew of St. Patrick of Ireland (474)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- St. Bladus (Baldus), an early Bishop of the Isle of Manorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gunthiern, a prince in Wales who went to Brittany and lived as a hermit (c. 500)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leo II, Pope of Rome (683)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cilléne Droichtech, Abbot of Iona (c. 752)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Guthagon, born in Ireland, he crossed to Belgium and became a hermit (8th century)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.
- Icon of the Mother of God the "Milk-Giver" (Galaktotrophousa), of the Hilandar Monastery on Mount AthosΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Γαλακτοτροφούσηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · saint.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Second translation (1652) of the relics of Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1569)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φίλιππος ὁ Θαυματουργός Μητροπολίτης Μόσχας καὶ Πάσης Ρωσίας (Ρῶσος)oca.org · synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
- Uncovering of the relics (1959) of Hieromartyr Raphael of Lesbos (1463), in MytileneἩ εὕρεσης τοῦ τάφου καὶ τῶν λειψάνων τοῦ Ἁγίου Ἱερομάρτυρος Ραφαὴλ ἐν Μυτιλήνῃ (1959)synaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Uncovering of the relics (2005) of Sylvester (Olshevsky), Bishop of Omsk (1920)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Nun Euphrosyne "the Unknown," of Kolyupanovo, Aleksin (1855)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 3 (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.