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27 July

21 commemorations of 27 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 August of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Panteleimon the HealerSt. Clement of Ohrid

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, Fool-for-Christ of Novgorod (1392)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ἐν Νόβγκοροντ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Ioasaph of Moscow, Metropolitan of Moscow (1555)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Christodoulos of Cassandra, at Thessaloniki (1777)ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of Sarapul (1918)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyrs Platon Gornykh and Panteleimon Bogoyavlensky, Priests (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr John Solovyev, Priest (1941)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Martyrs of Garavice and Bihac-Petrovacspc.rs · uoj.news

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.

  • Martyrs Maurus, Pantaleimon and Sergius, under Trajan (c. 117)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ecclesius, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy from 521 till 532orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Etherius, Bishop of Auxerre in France (573)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyrs Aurelius, his wife Sabigotha (Natalia), Felix and his wife Liliosa, and Hieromartyr George the Sabbaïte, Hierodeacon, at Córdoba (852)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.

  • Glorification (1970) of St. Herman of Alaska (1836)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Abbess Pulcheria of Viatka, Abbess of Nativity Convent (1890)pravoslavie.ru
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Magadan (1989)drevo-info.ru

The list is July 27 (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.

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