27 December
20 commemorations of 27 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 9 January of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Stephen the Protomartyr
Feasts
- Third Day of the Feast of the Nativityorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Apostle and Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr (34)Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Πρωτομάρτυρας καὶ Ἀρχιδιάκονοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria (282)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea (286–305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαυρίκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Theodore I, Patriarch of Constantinople (686)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Α’ Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theodore Graptus (the Branded) of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor, brother of Saint Theophanes the Confessor (840)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Γραπτὸςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia in BithyniaὉ Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς ὁ Τριγλινόςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Barlaam (Petrov), Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia (1802)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Abbot Boniface Vinogradsky, founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev (1871)orthochristian.com · pravenc.ru · drevo-info.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Tikhon Nikanorov, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919)mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Virgin Martyr Antonina (Bryanskikh) (1937)drevo-info.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.
- Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work (399)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.
- Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Therapont (Pherapont) of Belozersk and Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk (1514)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Right-Believing Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev, son of Saint Yaroslav the Wise (1076)ukrainian-orthodoxy.org
- Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars (1891)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Gregoriou Monastery, Mount Athos (1953)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim Rozenberg of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1993)pravoslavie.ru
- All-Merciful Kykko Icon of the Mother of Godoca.org
The list is December 27 (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.