9 October
24 commemorations of 9 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 22 October of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew righteous Lot (c. 2000 B.C.)Μνήμη Δικαίων Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Λὼτ τοῦ ἀνεψιοῦ τουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Apostle James, son of Alphaeus (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Ἀπόστολος τοῦ Ἀλφαίουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria (231)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Publia the Confessor, Deaconess, of Antioch (361-363)Ἡ Ὁσία Ποπλία ἡ Ὁμολογήτριαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Juventinus and Maximinus, soldiers, at Antioch (361-363)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerables Andronicus and his wife St. Athanasia, of Egypt (6th century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἀνδρόνικος καὶ Ἀθανασία ἡ συμβία τουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Peter of Galatia (9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ «ἀπὸ στρατιωτῶν»synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Blessed Stefan Lazarević, King of Serbia (1427)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (1468)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Constantine Sukhov and Peter Vyatkin, Priests (1918)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Constantine Aksenov, Priest (1937)calendar.rop.ru · 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.
- Hieromartyr Dionysius (Denis, Dennis, Denys), Bishop of Paris, with his companions Rusticus and Eleutherius (c. 258)oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Domninus of Fidenza (Donnino), martyr (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gislenus (Ghislain, Guislain), a confessor and anchorite in Belgium (680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Lambert and Valerius (Bellère, Beriher), disciples of St Gislenus in Belgium and the north of France (c. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Geminus, A monk at San Paterniano de Fano in Umbria, Italy (c. 815)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Savin (Sabinus), venerated as one of the Apostles of the Lavedan, in the Pyrenees, France (c. 820)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Deusdedit, a monk at Montecassino in Italy, chosen abbot about the year 830 (836)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gunther of Bohemia, a Bohemian hermit (1045)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.
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Korsun" (Cherson) (988)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Assuage My Sorrow" (12th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Glorification (1989) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon (Bellavin), Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)oca.org · saint.gr
- Uncovering of the relics (1997) of New Hiero-confessor Sebastian (Fomin), Archimandrite, of Optina and Karaganda (1966)calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (2007) of St. Job (Kundrya), Archimandrite, of Malaya Ugolka, Carpatho-Russia (1985)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 9 (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.