Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of December 27
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on December 27 — on the Old Calendar, civil January 9.
Commemorated on December 27
- Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
- St. Theodore the Branded
When it falls
- New Calendar: December 27 every year
- Old Calendar: civil January 9
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.