January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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January 27 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective January27 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th century)January 27 / February 9. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Αἰγύπτιος. 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Marciana (Markiane) (Euphemia) the Empress, wife of Emperor Justin I the Elder (r. 518-527), interred in the Church of the Holy ApostlesHoly Empress Markianḗ. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Μαρκιανὴ ἡ Βασίλισσα . 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 27 Ιανουαρίου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tamassos, CyprusGreat Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημητριανὸς ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἐπίσκοπος Ταμασσοῦ Κύπρου . 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Claudinus, monasticGreat Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Κλαυδίνος . 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Elias II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (797) Saint Ashot I Kurapalates of Iberia (Askiot), first Bagrationi Prince of Georgia, martyred (830)Holy King Askiot of Georgia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἄσκιοτ ὁ Βασιλέας. 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: January 29)

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (c. 150)January 27 . Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Julian of Le Mans, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans in France (3rd century) (see also: July 13 - East) Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack in the persecution of Diocletian (303) Saint Avitus, venerated in the Canary Islands as their Apostle and first Bishop, martyred in Africa Saints Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions; and Datius (Dativus), Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions (c. 500) Saint Maurus (Marius, Maur, May), founder of a monastery in Bodon (Bobacum) in France (c. 555) Saint Natalis of Ulster, a monastic founder in the north of Ireland, he worked with Saint Columba (564) Saint Lupus of Châlons, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saone, famous for his charity to the afflicted (c. 610) Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome from 657 to 672 (672) Saint Emerius, founder and first Abbot of St. Stephen of Bañoles in Catalonia in Spain (8th century) Saint Candida, mother of Saint Emerius, anchoress at the monastery of St. Stephen of Bañoles in Spain (c. 798) Saint Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch (800) Saint Theodoric II of Orleans, monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France, became Bishop of Orleans (1022) Saint Alruna of Cham (1045), recluse

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Τίτος ἐκ Κιέβου. 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.February 9 / January 27. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Saint Clement the Stylite of Mount Ságmata, Boeotia (12th century)Saint Clement the Stylite who lived as an ascetic on Mount Ságmata in Boeotia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Demetrius Klepinine, Priest of Paris (1944) Saint John the Almsgiver, of Amphiale, Piræus (1966) Proclamation of the Sanctity of St. John the New Almsgiver, of Amphiale, Piræus (1899-1966) Holy Metropolis of Oropos and Phyle of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Retrieved: February 18, 2026. (Old Calendarist only)

New martyrs and confessors New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας. 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev of Voronezh (1929)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Ζβέρεφ . 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromislov, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1940)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 10. New Confessor Anna Ivashkina of Ryazan (1948) Venerable New Confessor Leonty Stasevich of Ivanovo, Archimandrite (1972) New Hieromartyr Leontius the Mystic of Ternopil and Jablechna monastery, Poland (1972)

Other commemorations Translation of the relics (438) of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου Χρυσοστόμου Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως . 27 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Translation of the relics of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875) Repose of Schema-nun Margarita (Lakhtionova) of Diveyevo Monastery (1997)

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Sources January 27 / February 9. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). February 9 / January 27. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). January 27. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 10. January 27. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 27–28. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 37–38. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 27 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 27 Ιανουαρίου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 9 февраля (27 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 27 января (ст.ст.) 9 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).