January 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Jan. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For January 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 7.

Saints

• Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma (1st-2nd century), disciples of the Apostle Andrew in Scythia^{[1][2][3][note 2]}
• Martyr Eusebius (298)^{[5][note 3]}
• Venerable Euthymius the Great (473)^[1][6][7]
• Martyrs Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius, and Basilides, at Nicomedia (303)^{[1][8][9][10]}
• Martyrs Thyrsus and Agnes (5th century)^{[11][12][note 4]}
• Saint Leo the Great (Leo Marcellus), Confessor and Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (474)^{[12][13][note 5]}
• Saint Peter the Customs Inspector of Constantinople (Peter of Constantinople) (c. 527-565)^[1][12][14]

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Martyr Anna at Rome^[12][15]
• Saint Fabian, Pope of Rome (250)^{[16][note 6]}
• Saint Sebastian, one of the most renowned of all the martyrs of Rome (c. 288)^{[16][note 7]}
• Saint Molagga (Laicin), disciple of St David in Wales, founded a monastery in Fulachmhin (Fermoy), Ireland (655)^[16]
• Saint Féchín of Fore (665)^{[16][note 8]}
• Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681)^{[16][note 9]}
• Saint Maurus, monk and Abbot of Classe in Ravenna (Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe), and finally Bishop of Cesena (946).^[16]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Saint Euthymius, Bishop of Pereyaslav (1149)^[4]
• Venerable Laurence the Recluse (13th-14th century) of the Kiev Caves^[1][17][18]
• Venerable Euthymius the Silent, Schemamonk (14th century), of the Kiev Caves^[1][17][19]
• Saint Neophytus of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (14th century)^[1][12][20]
• Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Turnovo (1402)^[1][21]
• Saint Euthymius of Syanzhema (Vologda) (1470)^[1][20][22]
• Venerable Euthymius of Arkhangelsk (1523)^[1][12][23]
• New Martyr Zachariah of Patrai in Morea (1782)^[1][24][25]
• Venerable Theodore Kuzmich of Tomsk (Alexander I of Russia) (1864)^[1][12][26]

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Ioan Pettai, Estonian Martyr Presbyter.^{[27][note 10]}
• New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromyslov, Archpriest, of Ryazan (1940)^[1][20]
• Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944)^{[1][20][29][note 11]}

Other Commemorations

• Repose of Elder Gerasim, founder of Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk (1676)^[1]

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Notes

References

Sources

• January 20 / February 2. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• February 2 / January 20. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 20. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. January. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• 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. 9.
• January 20. 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. 20–21.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 20 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 20 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 20 января (ст.ст.) 2 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).