5 October
32 commemorations of 5 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 18 October of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyrs Dionysius of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, and the Deacons Gaius and Faustus (264-265)oca.org · orthochristian.com · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304)Ἡ Ἁγία Χαριτίνηsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Hermogenes the Wonderworker, Bishop of Samos, whose relics are in CyprusὉ Ἅγιος Ἐρμογένης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ Θαυματουργὸςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr Mamelta (Mamelchtha) of Persia (344)Ἡ Ἁγία Μαμελχθῆsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory (Grigol), Archimandrite of Khandzta in the Klarjeti desert, Georgia (861)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- St. Cosmas, Abbot, in Bithynia (10th century)saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saints Damian the Healer (1071), and Saints Jeremiah (c. 1070) and Matthew (c. 1085), clairvoyants, of the Kiev Cavespravenc.ru · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John (Mavropos), Metropolitan of Euchaita (1100)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Μαυρόπους, ἐπίσκοπος Εὐχαΐτωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Charitina, Princess of Lithuania (1281)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sabbas the Fool-for-Christ, of Vatopedi monastery, Mount Athos (1350)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σάββας ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός ὁ Βατοπαιδινόςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Varlaam, desert-dweller of Chikoysk (1846)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerable Methodia, recluse, of Kimolos (1908)Ἡ Ὁσία Μεθοδία ἐκ Κιμώλουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Seraphim (Amelin), schema-archimandrite of Glinsk Hermitage (1958)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hiero-confessor Gabriel (Igoshkin), Archimandrite, of Melekess (Saratov), Confessor (1959)pravenc.ru · 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 Palmatius and Companions, martyrs in Trier in Germany under Maximian Herculeus (c. 287)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Boniface, one of the martyrs with St Palmatius and Companions in Trier in Germany (c. 287)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alexander, one of the 'innumerable multitude' martyred in Trier in Germany under Diocletian (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Marcellinus of Ravenna, the second or third Bishop of Ravenna in Italy (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Firmatus, a Deacon, and Flaviana, a virgin, venerated as martyrs in Auxerre in Franceorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Apollinaris of Valence (Aiplonay), Bishop of Valence (c. 520)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Galla of Rome, a lady in Rome who, as a widow, led the life of an anchoress on the Vatican Hill, where she died of breast cancer (c. 550)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Magdalveus (Madalveus, Mauvé), a monk at St Vannes and later (c 736) Bishop of Verdun (776)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Meinulph, founder of the monastery of Böddeken in Westphalia in Germany (c. 859)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aymard of Cluny, Abbot of Cluny in France (965)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Attilanus, a Spanish Benedictine and Bishop of Zamora, he was prior of Moreruela Abbey (1009)Roman Martyrology · 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.
- Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers and Mothers of the Klarjeti Wilderness, holy fellow-strugglers of St. Gregory of Khandzta (9th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Moscow
- Saints Peter (1326), Theognostus (1353), Alexis (1378),Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), Jonah (1461), Gerontius (1489), Ioasaph (1555), Macarius (1563), Philip (1569), Job (1607), Hermogenes (1612), Philaret (1867), Innocent (Veniaminov) (1879), Tikhon (1925), Macarius II (1926), and Peter (Polyansky) (1937), Hierarchs of Moscow
- Synaxis of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Iberian Peninsula (established 2018) —orthochristian.com · events.orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Uncovering of the relics (1841) of Venerable Eudocimus the Unknown, monk of Vatopedi monastery, Mount AthosὉ Ὅσιος Εὐδόκιμος ὁ νεοφανήςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1985) of New Hiero-confessor Basil (Preobrazhensky), Bishop of Kineshma (1945)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Nun Agnia (Countess Anna Orlova-Chesmenskaya) of Novgorod (1848)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Paisius (Olaru) of Sihastria, Romania (1990)pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 5 (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.