Orthodox Calendar
July 2025
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1

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Martyr Leontius and Companions

2

Apostles Fast

  • Holy Apostle Jude, Brother of the Lord
  • Our Holy Father Païsius the Great of Egypt (400)

3

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Patar
  • St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)
  • Blessed Studios (5th c.)

4

Apostles Fast

  • Martyr Julian of Tarsus
  • Our Holy Fathers Julius and Julian (5th c.)

5

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata
  • St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)

6

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 4th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Martyr Agrippina of Rome
  • Martyr Agrippina of Rome (3rd c.)
  • Commemoration of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God

7

Apostles Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Nativity of St John the Baptist
  • Synaxis of Sts Zacharias and Elisabeth
  • Holy Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus and Longinus (3rd c.)

8

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Virgin Martyr Febronia
  • Peter and Fevronia of Murom
  • Our Holy Father Dionysios, founder of the Monastery of St John the Forerunner on Mt Athos (1380)

9

Apostles Fast

  • Ven. David of Thessalonica
  • Tikhvin Icon

10

Apostles Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Ven. Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople
  • St Severus the Priest (6th c.)
  • St Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st c.)

11

Apostles Fast

  • Trans. Rel. Ven. Cyrus and John
  • Sts Sergius and Herman (1353), abbots of Valaam
  • Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"
  • Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.)

12

  • Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

13

  • 5th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

14

  • Unmercenary Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian

15

  • Robe of the Theotokos at Blachernae
  • St John (Maximovich), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966) (June 19 OC)
  • St Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem (458)
  • St Juvenaly, First Martyr of America and Alaska (1796)

16

Fast

  • Martyr Hyacinth
  • Trans. Rel. Philip, Metr. Moscow
  • Our Holy Father Isaiah the Solitary (491)
  • Our Holy Father Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (430)
  • Our Father among the Saints Anatolios, Archbishop of Constantinople (458)

17

  • St Andrew of Crete
  • Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexei, and Grand duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918).
  • St Martha, mother of St Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain (551)
  • St Andrew (Rublev), iconographer (1430)

18

Fast

  • Unc. Rel. Ven. Sergius of Radonezh; Ven. Athanasius of Athos
  • Martyrdom of St Elizabeth Romanov and Nun Barbara (1918)
  • Our Holy Father the New Martyr Cyprian (1679)

19

  • Ven. Sisoes the Great
  • Holy Martyrs Marinus and Martha, and those with them (269)

20

  • 6th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Ven. Thomas of Mt Maleon
  • Holy Martyr Kyriake of Nicomedia (289)

21

  • Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea
  • Appearance of the "Kazan" icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579)
  • St Procopius, Fool for Christ (1303)

22

  • Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina

23

Fast

  • Ven. Anthony of the Kiev Caves
  • Holy 45 Martyrs of Nikopolis in Armenia (319)
  • The Placing of the Precious Robe of the Lord in Moscow (1625)

24

  • Greatmartyr Euphemia
  • Blessed Princess Olga
  • New Martyrs Nikodemos (1722) and Nektarios (1820)
  • St Sophrony of Essex (1993) (June 28 OC)

25

Fast

  • Martyrs Proclus and Hilary of Ancyra
  • St Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood who was healed by the Savior
  • Saint Païsios of the Holy Mountain (1994) (June 29 OC)

26

  • Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel
  • Holy Martyr Golinduc of Persia (6th c.)
  • Saint Julian, Bishop of Cenomanis (Le Mans) (1st c.)
  • Repose of Photios Kontoglou (1965) (June 30 OC)

27

  • 7th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Fathers of the 1st Six Ecumenical Councils
  • Apostle Aquila of the Seventy
  • Apostle Aquila of the Seventy, and St Priscilla (1st c.).
  • Our Father among the Saints Joseph, Archbishop of Thessalonika (833)
  • St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, spiritual writer (1809)

28

  • Great Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of the Lands of Rus
  • Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta (304)

29

  • Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis

30

Fast

  • Royal Passionbearers
  • Greatmartyr Marina

31

  • Martyr Emilian of Silistria
  • St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)