8 December
24 commemorations of 8 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 December of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Holy Apostles of the Seventy (1st century)
- Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus
- Holy Apostle Epaphras of the Seventy Disciples (1st century)drevo-info.ru
- Venerable Patapios (Patapius) of Thebes (4th or 7th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πατάπιοςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy 362 Martyrs of Africa, martyred by the Arians (477)
- 62 priests and 300 laymen martyred by the Arians
- Saint Victoria of Culusi (c. 484)sobor-rf.ru
- Venerable Sophronius I, Bishop of Cyprus (6th century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Σωφρόνιος καὶ Δαμιανὸς Ἐπίσκοποι Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Damian, Bishop of Cyprus (6th-8th century)drevo-info.ru
- Venerable Aeros, Archbishop of the Church of JerusalemὉ Ἅγιος Ἀέρος ὁ Ἀρχιεπίσκοποςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Martiriusdrevo-info.ru
- Saint Moskhian (10th-11th century)drevo-info.ru
- Saint Cyril, Founder and Abbot of Chelmogorsk (Chelma Hill) Monastery, Karelia, Enlightener of the Chudian People (1367)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Parthenios of Chios (1883)drevo-info.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Protopresbyter, of Perm (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Fedoseyev, Priest, of Perm (1918)
- New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Priest (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Orlov (1937)
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 Eucharius, first Bishop of Trier in Germany (1st century or c. 250)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Valerius of Trèves, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (c. 250)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eutychian, Pope of Rome, venerated as a martyr (283)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Valerian of Abbenza, Bishop, martyred by Vandals (457)drevo-info.ru
- Martyr Anthusa (Anthysa) at Rome (5th century)oca.org · mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Budoc (Budock), Bishop of Dol and Plourin (6th century)
- Saint Romaricus, monk at Luxeuil Abbey, later founded the monastery of Habendum (Remiremont Abbey, Romarici Mons), and became the second abbot (653)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gunthild, a nun from Wimborne in England, went to Germany and became Abbess of a convent in Thuringia (748)orthodoxengland.org.uk
The list is December 8 (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.