Orthodox Calendar for December 2025

December 2025
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Nahum (7th c. BC) Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762) Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)	2 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Prophet Habbakuk (Abbacum) (7th c. BC). 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 Holy Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias) (7th c. BC) Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)	4 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290) Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760) Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)	5 Nativity Fast Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified Our Venerable, Godbearing Father Sabbas the Sanctified (533) 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 Our Father among the Saints Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra (345) New Martyr Nicolas Karamos of Smyrna (1657) St Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev & Vladimir (1305)
7 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 26th Sunday after Pentecost Our Father among the Saints Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (397) The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following) Our Venerable Father Antony of Siya (1556)	8 Nativity Fast Our Venerable Father Patapius (6th or 7th c.) Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus and Epaphroditus, Cephas and Caesar	9 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos The Conception of the Most Holy Mother of God 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 Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus (235)	11 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Our Venerable Father Daniel the Stylite (490) Saint Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves (1101) Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979)	12 Nativity Fast 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 St Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836). First Martyrs of America Juvenaly (1796) and Peter the Aleut (1815 ) Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste Holy Virgin Maryr Lucy of Syracuse (304)
14 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 27th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday of the Forefathers Holy Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis and Callinicus (250) Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)	15 Nativity Fast Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and those with him (126) 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—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Prophet Haggai (ca. 520 BC) Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893)	17 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Misael Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)	18 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Martyr Sebastian and those with him (287) Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634)	19 Nativity Fast Holy Martyr Boniface (290)	20 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday before Nativity Repose of St. John of Kronstadt Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107) Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)
21 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 28th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday before Nativity Holy Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia and those with her (304) Our Holy Father Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (1326) Saint Procopius of Vyatka, Fool for Christ (1627)	22 Nativity Fast Holy Great Martyr Anastasia the Widow, the Deliverer from Potions (290)	23 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete (250) 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 Eve of Nativity Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (ca. 190)	25 Nativity of Christ The Nativity according to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ The Shepherds who saw the Lord The Veneration of the Magi	26 Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos. The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family Our Holy Father Euthymius the Confessor, Bishop of Sardis (840) Our Holy Father Constantine of Synnada (7th c.)	27 Saturday after Nativity Protomartyr Stephen Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the Hymnographer
28 29th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday after Nativity 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 The Holy Infants Killed for Christ's Sake in Bethlehem Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485)	30 Holy Virgin and Martyr Anysia (298) Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)	31 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)