28 December
24 commemorations of 28 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 10 January of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Apostle Nicanor the Deacon, one of the Seven Deacons, and one of the Seventy (34)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Secundus, an Enlightener of Spain, sent by the Apostles to Spain to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σεκοῦνδος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia (302)
- Hieromartyr Glycerius, priest
- Deacons Theophilus and Migdonius
- Martyrs Zeno, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, and Euthymius
- Virgin Martyrs Agape, Domna (the former pagan priestess), Theophila, and others
- Martyr PloutodorosὉ Ἅγιος Πλουτόδωροςsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Babylas of Tarsus in CiliciaὉ Ὅσιος Βάβυλαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Stephen the WonderworkerὉ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Simon the Myrrhgusher, founder of Simonopetra, Mount Athos (1287)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σίμων ὁ Μυροβλήτης κτήτορας τῆς Ι. Μονῆς Σιμωνόπετραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ignatius, Monk, of Loma (Vologda) (Ignatii of Lomsk and Yaroslavsk) (1591)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nephon the New Cenobiarch (1809)johnsanidopoulos.com
- Saint Cornelius, monk of Krypetsk Monastery, Pskov (1903)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Νikodemos) Kononov, Bishop of Belgorod, at Solovki (1918)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Arcadius Reshetnikov, Deacon (1918)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Dagaev, Priest (1920)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Khoperskov, Leonid Viktorov, and Nicholas Rodimov, Priests (1937)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Tsitseronov, known as Cicero, Priest (1938)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · johnsanidopoulos.com
- New Hieromartyr Arethus Nasonov, Priest (1938)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Confessor Smaragda (Onishchenko), Abbess of Nezhinsk , Ukraine (1945)drevo-info.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.
- Martyrs Castor, Victor and Rogatian, in North Africaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Domnio (Domnion), a righteous priest in Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Romulus and Conindrus, two of the first people to preach Orthodoxy on the Isle of Man, they were contemporaries of Saint Patrick (c. 450)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maughold (Maccaldus), a former brigand in Ireland, was converted by Saint Patrick and sent to the Isle of Man, where his episcopate was very fruitful (c. 488)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Antony of Lérins (Anthony the Hermit), renowned for miracles (c. 520)Roman Martyrology · 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.
- Repose of Joseph the Hesychast, Romania (1828)pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 28 (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.