27 August
38 commemorations of 27 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 September of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Saint Hosius the Confessor (Osius or Ossius), Bishop of Cordova (359)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὅσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Κορδούης τῆς Ἱσπανίαςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome (366)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λιβέριος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Πάπας Ρώμηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Arcadius, Eastern Roman Emperor (395-408)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρκάδιος ὁ βασιλιὰςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Praulius, Archbishop of Jerusalem (422)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Poemen the Great, of Egypt (450)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ποιμὴνsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sabbas, monk, of Benephaliholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Poemen of Palestine (605)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-martyr Phanourios the Newly-Revealed, of RhodesὉ Ἅγιος Φανούριος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας ὁ Νεοφανήςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Anthousa the New, by drowning in a wellἩ Ἁγία Ἀνθοῦσα ἡ νέαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Theoklitos, a Magistros from Constantinople who retired from the world and took the monastic habit, becoming an ascetic on Mt. OlymposὉ Ὅσιος Θεόκλητοςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Hieromartyr Kuksha and St. Pimen the Faster, of the Near Caves in Kiev (after 1114)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Michael Voskresensky, Priest, (with 28 other martyrs), and Stephen Nemkov, Priest, (with 18 other martyrs), all of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs John Lebedev and John Smirnov, Priests (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Methodius (Ivanov), Abbot, of Sukovo (Moscow) (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Aleksander Tsitserov, Priest (1939)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Sokolov, Priest (1940)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Demetrius Kryuchkov the Confessor, Priest (1952)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.
- Virgin-martyr Euthalia, in Leontini in Sicily (252)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Rufus and Carpophorus (Carpone), Martyrs in Capua under Diocletian (295)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rufus of Capua, Bishop of Capua and disciple of St Apollinaris of Ravennaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Narnus, first Bishop of Bergamo in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Monica of Hippo (Monica of Tagaste) (387)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Caesarius of Arles, Bishop of Arles (543)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Licerius (Lizier), Bishop of Couserans (c. 548)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Syagrius (Siacre), Bishop of Autun and Confessor (600)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Etherius (Alermius), Bishop of Lyon (602)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Decuman of Watchet (Dagan) (706)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ebbo, Bishop of Sens (740)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint John of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy (813)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agilo, Monk of St Aper in Toul in France (957)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gebhard of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany (995)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Malrubius, an hermit in Merns in Kincardineshire in Scotland, martyred by Norwegian invaders (c. 1040)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.
- Baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch Djan Darada, by Saint Philip the Evangelist, in Acts 8:26-40 (1st century)Βάπτιση τοῦ Αἰθίοπα Εὐνούχου ἀπὸ τὸν Ἅγιο Φίλιπποsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Uncovering of the relics (1991) of St. John Gashkevich, Archpriest, of Korma (1917)pravoslavie.ru
- Reburial of the relics (2020) of St. John Domovsky, Archpriest in Rostov-on-Don, a confessor of Orthodoxy who firmly denounced the Renovationists (1930)orthochristian.com · patriarchia.ru
- Slaying of Archimandrite Symeon (Kholmogorov), spiritual writer (1937)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Sergius (Ozerov) of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia (1937)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitans of Moscow
The list is August 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.