Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of December
Every day of December in the Orthodox calendar, with its feasts and principal saints.
- December 1 — Prophet Nahum; St. Philaret the Merciful
- December 2 — Prophet Habakkuk; St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
- December 3 — Prophet Zephaniah; St. John the Hesychast
- December 4 — Great Martyr Barbara; St. John of Damascus
- December 5 — St. Sabbas the Sanctified
- December 6 — St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
- December 7 — St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
- December 8 — St. Patapius of Thebes; Forefeast of the Conception by St. Anna
- December 9 — The Conception by Righteous Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos
- December 10 — Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus
- December 11 — St. Daniel the Stylite; St. Luke the New Stylite
- December 12 — St. Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trimythous
- December 13 — Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius and companions; St. Herman of Alaska
- December 14 — Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius and companions
- December 15 — Hieromartyr Eleutherius; St. Paul of Latros
- December 16 — Prophet Haggai; Empress Theophano
- December 17 — Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths; St. Dionysius of Zakynthos
- December 18 — Martyr Sebastian of Rome and companions
- December 19 — Martyr Boniface of Tarsus
- December 20 — Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer of Antioch; St. John of Kronstadt
- December 21 — Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia; St. Peter of Moscow
- December 22 — Great Martyr Anastasia, Deliverer from Potions
- December 23 — The Ten Martyrs of Crete; St. Naum of Ohrid
- December 24 — Eve of the Nativity (Paramony); Virgin-martyr Eugenia of Rome
- December 25 — The Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- December 26 — Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos; St. Euthymius of Sardis
- December 27 — Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen; St. Theodore the Branded
- December 28 — The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
- December 29 — The Holy Innocents of Bethlehem; St. Marcellus
- December 30 — Virgin-martyr Anysia of Thessalonica
- December 31 — Leavetaking of the Nativity; St. Melania the Younger of Rome
Commemorations follow the Menaion of the Orthodox Church. New Calendar parishes keep them on the date shown; Old Calendar parishes keep them 13 days later on the civil calendar. Local churches add their own saints — your parish calendar comes first.