30 August
33 commemorations of 30 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 12 September of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptistorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Hieromartyr Philonidis (Philoneidis) of Cyprus (3rd century)synaxarion.gr
- 6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowningsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the swordsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Bryaene of Nisibis (318)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Alexander (340), John VIII of Constantinople (595), and Paul the New (784), Archbishops of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarchssynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- The Venerable Guardian (Grk.: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ)synaxarion.gr
- Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt (c. 362)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Christopher of Palestine (Christopher the Roman, in Palestine) (6th century)ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs
- Saints Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285), James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), Archbishops
- Saints Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388), Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419), Nicon (c. 1439), Macarius (1574), and Gabriel I (1659), Patriarchs
- St. Gregory (1012), Bishop
- Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich (14th-15th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1657)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ioannicius (Rudniev), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich (1900)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru · uoj.org.ua
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Lebedev), Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (St. Peter’s Monastery), Moscow (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk (1972)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on September 1 (c. 250)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading (c. 304)synaxarion.gr
- Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula (c. 340-410)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agilus (Ail, Aile, Aisle, Ayeul) (c. 580-650)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fiacrius (Fiacre, Fiaker, Fèvre), Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie (c. 670)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, hermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain, martyred by the Saracens (c. 950)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica (974)synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont (1026)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco (c. 1050)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.
- Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, great prince of Moscow (1303)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics (1724) of St. Alexander Nevsky (Alexis in schema), great prince of Novgorod (1263)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics of St. Guthlac, Hieromonk of Crowlandholytrinityorthodox.com
The list is August 30 (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.