6 December
21 commemorations of 6 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 19 December of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Nicholas of Myra (c. 270-343)
Saints
- Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (181)orthochristian.com
- Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire (c. 286-305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νισέρsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (c. 345)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Μύρων τῆς Λυκίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
- Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of Saint Nicholas of Myra (4th century)
- Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea (Cratia, Kratia) in Bithynia (6th century)
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus (1305)oca.org
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Καραμάνος ἢ Κασσέτηςsynaxarion.gr
- New Hieromartyr Michael Uspensky, Priest of Moscow (1937)
- New Hieromartyrs/Hieroconfessors Nicholas, Priest of Tobolsk, Nicholas, Missionary of Moscow, and Nicholas, Priest of Novo-Nikolskaya (1942)
- New Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia, Archimandrite (1942)orthochristian.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.
- Saint Asella (406)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missionaries with Saint Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric (c. 484)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye (Hamay, Hamage) near Douai, in north France (649)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.
- The miraculous apparition of Saint Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
- Divine warning of an impending earthquake in Constantinople (1090)johnsanidopoulos.com
- Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II (1918)
- Glorification (1996) of Saint Peter Mogila (Petro Mohyla), Metropolitan of Kiev (1646)drevo-info.ru
- Icon of Our Lady of Tambov (1695)drevo-info.ru · sedmitza.ru
- Seafaring Icon of the Mother of Godimoph.org
- The Wonderworking icon of Saint Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev
The list is December 6 (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.