29 September
22 commemorations of 29 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 12 October of the civil calendar.
Saints
- The Eighty (80) Holy Martyrs of Byzantium, burnt in a marine vessel during the reign of Emperor Valens (364-378)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Tryphon, Trophimus, and Dorymedon, and 150 Martyrs, in PalestineΟἱ Ἅγιοι Τρύφων, Τρόφιμος καὶ Δορυμέδωνsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodota of Philippi
- Martyr Petronia, by the swordἩ Ἁγία Πετρωνία ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Martyr Gudelia (Govdelia) of Persia (4th century)Ἡ Ἁγία Γουδελία (ἢ Γοβδελία)synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Martyrs Dada, Gabdelas, and Casdoe (Kazdoa) of Persia (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γοβδελαᾶς, Δᾴδας, Κάσδοος καὶ Κασδόαsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite, Hermit, of Palestine (556)Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυριακὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητὴςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Theophanes the Merciful of Gazaoca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Cyprian, Abbot, of Ustiug in Vologda (1276)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Malachi of Rhodes, tortured and roasted on a spit over live coals (1500)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαλαχίας ὁ Νέος Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable monk-martyrs in the Strofades (1530 or 1537)Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν Στροφάσιν ἀναιρεθέντες Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Saint Onuphrius the Wonderworker, of Gareji, Georgia (1733)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Three New Martyrs of Vrachori, Agrinio (1786)Οἱ Ἅγιοι τρεῖς Νεομάρτυρες ἐν τῷ Βραχωρίῳ Ἀγρινίου († 1786)synaxarion.gr · saint.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John (Pommer), Archbishop of Riga in Latvia (1934)calendar.rop.ru · 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.
- Saint Fraternus, Bishop of Auxerre in France and by tradition a martyr (450)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Ludwin (Leudwinus, Liutwin, Leodwin), Founder of Mettlach in Germany and then Bishop of Trier (c. 713)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Catholdus, Anno and Diethardus, three monks who preached the Gospel around Eichstätt in Germany (late 8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alaricus (Adalricus, Adalrai), a monk at Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland, later a hermit on the island of Uffnau in the lake of Zurich (975)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.
- Translation of the relics of St. Donatus, Bishop of Euroea in Epirus (387), from the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Venice to Paramythia in Greecesaint.gr
- Repose of Blessed Anthony Alexeyevich, Fool-for-Christ, of Zadonsk (1851)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ἐκ Ζαντόσκ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Uncovering of the relics (1993) of St. John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim (Schmaltz) of Alaska (1969)pravoslavie.ru
The list is September 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.