30 December
22 commemorations of 30 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 12 January of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Apostle Timon the Deacon of the Seventy (1st century)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin Martyr Anysia of Thessaloniki (298)Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀνυσία ἡ Ὁσιομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · Roman Martyrology · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Philoterus (Philetairus) of Nicomedia, and with him six soldiers and one count (311)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλέταιροςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (c. 340)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anysios, Bishop of Thessaloniki (384–407)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνύσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκηςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology
- Martyrs Magistrianus, Paulinus, Umbrius, Verus, Severus, Callistratus, Florentius, Arianus, Anthimus, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson, Studius, and... (361–363)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theodora of Caesarea in Cappadocia (755)Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοδώρα ἡ ἀπὸ Καισαρίδοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
- Venerable Theodora of Constantinople, Nun (940)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Leo (Leonidus) the ArchimandriteὉ Ὅσιος Λέων ὁ Ἀρχιμανδρίτηςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Monastic Martyr Gideon of Karakallou Monastery, Mount Athos, at Turnovo (1818)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεδεὼν ὁ Νέος Ὁσιομάρτυραςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Hadji-Georgis the Athonite (1886)orthochristian.com · ec-patr.org · romfea.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Florinsky, Priest of Rakvere, Estonia (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Virgin Martyr Mary Danilova of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1946)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.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.
- Saint Liberius of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy, venerated as one of the founders of that diocese (c. 200)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Martyrs Sabinus of Spoleto, Exuperantius, Marcellus, Venustian and Companions (303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Egwin of Evesham, Bishop of Worcester (717)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eugene of Milan, Bishop and ConfessorRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sebastian, a monk who became Archbishop of Esztergom in 1002 and Primate of Hungary in the time of Saint Stephen I of Hungary (c. 1036)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 (1652) of Saint Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1540)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 30 (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.