Orthodox Calendar for December 2023

December 2023
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1 Nativity Fast Prophet Nahum Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762) Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)	2 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Habbakuk Holy Martyr Myrope (Myropea) of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Athanasius "the Resurrected," Recluse of the Kiev Caves (1176) Saint (Stephen) Uroš, King of Serbia (1367) Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (1991) (Nov. 19 OC)
3 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 26th Sunday after Pentecost Prophet Zephaniah Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)	4 Nativity Fast Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290) Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760) Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)	5 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified St Cosmas the Protos of Mount Athos and his companions (ca. 1274)	6 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia New Martyr Nicolas Karamos of Smyrna (1657) St Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev & Vladimir (1305)	7 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following) Our Venerable Father Antony of Siya (1556)	8 Nativity Fast Ven. Patapius of Thebes Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus and Epaphroditus, Cephas and Caesar	9 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos St Hannah (Anna), the Prophetess, the mother of the Prophet Samuel (12th c. BC) St Stephen the New Light (Neolampes) of Constantinople (912)
10 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 27th Sunday after Pentecost Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus	11 Nativity Fast Ven. Daniel the Stylite Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101) Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)	12 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Spyridon the Wonderworker St Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836) Our Holy Godbearing Father Spyridon the Wonderworker (348). St Finian of Clonard (549)	13 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste Holy Virgin Maryr Lucy of Syracuse (304)	14 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)	15 Nativity Fast Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Illyria St Stephen of Surozh Holy Martyr Eleutherius the Cubicularius (4th c.) Holy Martyr Bacchus the New (787) Our Venerable Father Tryphon of Kola, apostle of Laponia (1583), and his disciple the Holy Martyr Jonah (1590)	16 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Haggai Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893)
17 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 28th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday of the Forefathers Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)	18 Nativity Fast Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634)	19 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyr Boniface and Righteous Aglaida	20 Nativity Fast Repose of St. John of Kronstadt Forefeast of Nativity Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)	21 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Virgin Martyr Juliana and Companions Our Holy Father Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (1326) Saint Procopius of Vyatka, Fool for Christ (1627)	22 Nativity Fast Royal Hours of Nativity Greatmartyr Anastasia and Companions	23 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday before Nativity Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th c.) Our Holy Father Nahum of Ochrid, Wonderworker and Enlightener of the Slavs (ca. 900)
24 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 29th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday before Nativity – Eve of Nativity Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (ca. 190)	25 Nativity of Christ The Shepherds who saw the Lord The Veneration of the Magi	26 Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family Our Holy Father Constantine of Synnada (7th c.)	27 Protomartyr Stephen Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the Hymnographer	28 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia The Twenty Thousand Martyrs burned to death in their church in Nicomedia (ca. 304). Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287)	29 Holy Innocents Slain by Herod Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485)	30 Saturday after Nativity – Saturday before Theophany Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)
31 30th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday after Nativity Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome Our Holy Mother Melania the Younger of Rome (439) Saint Zoticus, Cherisher of the Poor and Servant of Lepers (4th c) St Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid (ca. 1126)