29 July
32 commemorations of 29 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 11 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Virgin-martyr Seraphima (Serapia) of Antioch (c. 117-138)orthochristian.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
- Martyr Kallinikos of Cilicia in Asia Minor (c. 250)Ὁ Ἅγιος Καλλίνικος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodota and her three sons in Bithynia (c. 304)Ἡ Ἁγία Θεοδότη ἡ Μάρτυς καὶ τὰ τρία παιδιά τηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Benjamin and Berius, by the Palace of the HebdomonΟἱ Ἅγιοι Βενιαμὶν καὶ Βήριοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr Mamas, by drowningὉ Ἅγιος Μάμας ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr Basiliscus the Elder, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Βασιλίσκος ὁ γέρωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr IoannisὉ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- The holy Martyrs, a father and mother, with their two children, by fireΟἱ Ἅγιοι Πατέρας, Μητέρα καὶ τὰ δυὸ Παιδιά τους οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Blessed John the Soldier (c. 361)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ στρατιώτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Saint Theodosius the Younger, the pious emperor (450)Ὁ Εὐσεβὴς Βασιλιὰς Θεοδόσιος Β’ ὁ Νέος ἢ Μικρόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Eustathius the Cobbler of Mtskheta, Georgia (589)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Constantine I, Patriarch of Constantinople (677)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Constantine III Leichoudes, Patriarch of Constantinople (1063)ecclesia.gr
- Saints Constantine and Cosmas of Kosinsk, in Pskov, Abbots (13th century)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Romanus of Kirzach, founder of Kirzhach Monastery, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1392)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Bogolep, Child Schemamonk of Chorny Yar, near Astrakhan (1667)ocafs.oca.org
- Hieromartyr Bessarion of Smolyan, Bulgaria (1670)holytrinityorthodox.com · hsir.org · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Daniel Kushnir of Mlievich (Daniel of Cherkassk), Ukraine (1766)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Seraphim (Bogoslovsky) and Theognostus (Pivovarov), Hieromonks of a skete at Kyzyl-Zharskoe, Kazakhstan (1921)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Anatole (Smirnov), Hieromonk and hermit of the Caucasus Mountains, Abkhazia (1930-1935)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Pachomius (Rusin), Hieromonk, of Alma Ata, Kazakhstan (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Krasnovsky, Priest (1938)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 Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, two brothers and their sister martyred in Rome under Diocletian (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Faustinus (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Prosper of Orleans, Bishop of Orleans in France (c.453)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes, Gaul (479)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sulien (Sulian, Silin), born in Brittany, he founded a small monastery in Luxulyan in Cornwall (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Kilian, an abbot of a monastery on the island of Inis Cealtra in Ireland, and author of a Life of St Brigid (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Olaf II of Norway (Olav, Tola), King of Norway (1030)holytrinityorthodox.com · 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.
- Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (3rd century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Rudoe Selo (19th century)drevo-info.ru
- Repose of Archpriest Georges Florovsky (1979)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 29 (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.