23 December
25 commemorations of 23 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 5 January of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete (250)
- Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius (Pontius), Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus
- Martyr Schinon (Skinus), by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Σχίνων ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Paul, Bishop of Neocaesarea, a father of the First Ecumenical Council (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νεοκαισαρείαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Niphon, Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νήφων Ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντιανὴςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Chrysogonos (Chrysogonus)Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρυσόγονοςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Naum (Nahum) of Ochrid, Enlightener of the Bulgarians (910)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Theoctistus (Feoktist), Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Antonina Diaconu, Nun from Tismana Monastery (2011)orthochristian.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs John Piankov and Nicholas Yakhontov, Priests (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Paul Kratirov, Bishop of Starobelsk (1932)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Basil Spassky, Priest, at Tver (1938)mospat.ru
- New Hieromartyr Macarius Mironov, Hieromonk of Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver) (1938)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr John Smirnov, Hieromonk of Bolshoye Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1938)drevo-info.ru · 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.
- Virgin Martyrs Victoria and Anatolia, two sisters martyred in Rome for refusing to marry pagans (250)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Migdonius and Mardonius, high officials at the imperial court in Rome, under Diocletian (303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Servulus, a righteous man who was a cripple, used to beg for alms at the door of the church of Saint Clement in Rome, sharing what he received with... (c. 590)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Dagobert II, King of Austrasia in the east of France, was exiled to a monastery in 656, recalled in 675 and martyred by the tyrant Ebroin (679)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mazota, leader of a group of nineteen holy virgins who went from Ireland to Scotland and founded a monastery at Abernethy on the Tay (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Egbert (Ecgberht) of Rathmelsigi Abbey and Ripon, who organised the mission to Frisia, Netherlands (729)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Frithbert, successor of Saint Acca as Bishop of Hexham, where he served for thirty-four years (766)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Vintila, a monk who reposed as a hermit in Punxín in Galicia in Spain (890)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.
- Commemoration of the Consecration and re-dedication of the Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), by Saint Eutychius of Constantinople (562)Μνήμη Ἐγκαινίων τῆς Ἁγίας Σοφίας (562 μ.Χ.)synaxarion.gr
- Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino Monastery, Fool-for-Christ (1886)pravoslavie.ru · vologda-mitropolia.ru
The list is December 23 (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.