8 July
25 commemorations of 8 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Epictetus, Priest, and Monk-martyr Astion, at Halmyris in Scythia Minor (Romania) (290)orthochristian.com · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine (303)
- Martyrs Theodosia (his mother), tribunes Antiochus and Nicostratus, martyrs Abdias and Sabbas, and twelve women of senatorial rank, all by the sword
- Martyr Mirdat, King of Kartli, Georgia (410)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Procopius of Ustyug, Fool-for-Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug, Vologda (1303)Ὁ Ἅγιος Προκόπιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ὁ ἐν Οὐστούζῃ, ὁ θαυματουργὸςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mount Athos (1548)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόφιλος ὁ Ἀθωνίτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous Procopius, Fool-for-Christ, of Ustya, Vologda (c. 1600)Ὁ Ἅγιος Προκόπιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ἐν Οὔσια Βόλογκντα (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Anastasius of Saint Blaise in Hegumenitsa, Priest, of Constantinople (1743)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ νέος Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Popov, Theodore Raspopov, and Nikolai Bryantsev, Priests (1918)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Procopius (Titov), Archbishop of Kherson (1937)
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 Aquila and Priscilla, a Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament (Acts 18:3, Rom. 16:3-4) (1st century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Auspicius of Trier, the fourth Bishop of Trier in Germany and successor of St Maternus (c. 130)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Apollonius, Bishop of Benevento in Italy (c. 326)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Sostratus, Spirus, Eraclius, Eperentius and Cecilia, martyrs of Syrmium in Pannonia (4th century)
- Saint Morwenna, patroness of Morwenstow, England (5th or 6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Urith of Chittlehampton (Hieritha), a nun martyred by pagan English invaders at Chittlehampton in Devon (6th century?)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Kilian (Chilianus), Colman and Totnan, monks from Ireland, Enlighteners of Franconia and East Thuringia, where they were martyred (c. 689)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Landrada of Austrasia, foundress and first Abbess of Munsterbilsen in Belgium (c. 690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Withburgh of East Anglia (Withburga), an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England (c. 743)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler, a charitable Greek musician at the court of Charlemagne (c. 800)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Blessed Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England (975)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Grimbald, monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders, invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England, Abbot of Winchester (901)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin-martyr Sunniva (Sunnifa) and companions, on Selje Island, Norway (10th century)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.
- Translation of the relics (1779) of St. Demetrius of Basarabov, Bulgaria, to Bucharest (1685)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Slaying of Anastasia Strogilos on the Mount of Olives (1995)pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of All Military Saints of the Orthodox Church (2019)saint.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
The list is July 8 (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.