25 July
23 commemorations of 25 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 7 August of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Olympias the Deaconess
Saints
- The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most Holy TheotokosἩ Κοίμηση τῆς Ἁγίας Ἄννας Μητέρας τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy Martyrs of Lyon (c. 177)
- Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon
- Righteous Olympias the Deaconess, of Constantinople (410)Ἡ Ὁσία Ὀλυμπιάδα ἡ Διακόνισσαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-martyr Eupraxia of Tabennisi (413)Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐπραξίαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Elias of Thessaloniki, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, who played a leading role in the Fifth Ecumenical Council (c. 553)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Macarius of Zheltovod and Unzha, Abbot and Wonderworker (1444)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος Ζελτοβόδας ὁ Θαυματουργός (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Christopher of Solvychegodsk in Vologda, Abbot (1572)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory (Kallidis), Metropolitan of Thessalonica and of Heraclea (1925)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Udintsev, Priest (1918)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Sakharov, Priest (1927)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Theodore Tonkovid, Priest of Lovets, Pskov (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Vukosav Milanovic and Rodoljub Samardzic, of Kulen Vakuf, Serbia (1941-1945)crkvenikalendar.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967)drevo-info.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.
- Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Florentius and Felix, two soldiers martyred under Maximinius the Thracian at Furcona near Aquila in the south of Italy (235)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Cucuphas of Barcelona (Cucufate, Cugat, Guinefort, Qoqofas), a martyr of Spain (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Magnericus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (596)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), born in Beauvais in France, he became a hermit and later founded a monastery at Saint-Fuscien-aux-Bois () (c. 600)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Glodesinda of Metz, a nun in Metz in France, where she later became abbess (c. 608)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century)rus-kirche-baden.de
- Saint Theodemir of Córdoba, a monk martyred in Córdoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (851)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.
- Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, who refuted the doctrines of Origen (553)Μνήμη Ε’ Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 25 (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.