Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of January 30
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on January 30 — on the Old Calendar, civil February 12.
Commemorated on January 30
- The Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom
St. Basil the Great
Archbishop of Caesarea (†379), one of the Three Hierarchs. He gave the Church her longer Liturgy, her first hospitals, and the rule that still shapes monastic life. Commemorated January 1.
When it falls
- New Calendar: January 30 every year
- Old Calendar: civil February 12
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.