Orthodox Calendar for March 2027

March 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1 Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis (2nd c.)	2 Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (326) The Four Hundred and Forty Martyrs of Lombardy (579) Holy Martyr Euthalia (257)	3 Fast Holy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus (308) An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)	4 St Gerasimos of the Jordan (475) St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)	5 Fast Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.) St Mark of Athens (4th c.) St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)	6 Memorial Saturday The 42 Martyrs of Ammorion (845)
7 Sunday of Meatfare Sunday of the Last Judgment Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basileus, Ephraim, Eugenios, Capito, Aetherios, Agathodoros, and Elpidios (4th c.)	8 Fast—Meat Fast St Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia (845) Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)	9 Fast—Meat Fast Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia (Sebaste) (320) St Caesarius (369)	10 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy Martyrs Codratus (Quadratus) and those with him (258) Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)	11 Fast—Meat Fast St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (638) St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622) Holy Martyr Pionius (250)	12 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy St Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604) Our Holy Father Theophanes the Confessor (818) Repose of St Symeon the New Theologian (1021)	13 Fast—Meat Fast Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics Translation of the Relics (847) of St Nicephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople (827)
14 Fast—Meat Fast Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise Forgiveness Sunday St Benedict of Nursia, abbot (547) St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)	15 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Beginning of the Great Fast Martyr Agapius and seven with him (303) Holy Martyr Alexander (270-275)	16 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (287) Our Holy Father Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1111) Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain (1st c.)	17 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon; Presanctified Liturgy St Alexis, the Man of God (411) St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)	18 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon St Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem (386) St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?) Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)	19 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Martyrs Chrysanthos and Daria, and those with them at Rome (283)	20 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit) Our righteous Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St Sabbas the Sanctified (633? 796?) St Photine the Samaritan Woman (66) St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)
21 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed First Sunday of Lent Sunday of Orthodoxy Our Holy Father James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studion (8th c.) Our Holy Father Serapion (366)	22 Lenten Fast Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra (362) Martyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns (104)	23 Lenten Fast Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)	24 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Presanctified Liturgy Forefeast of Annunciation Saint Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.) Commemoration of the Miracle at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (?)	25 Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary New Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)	26 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Presanctified Liturgy Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel	27 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday St Matrona of Thessalonica (4th c.)
28 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Second Sunday of Lent St Gregory Palamas St Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete, Confessor (754) Repose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)	29 Lenten Fast Our Righteous Father Mark the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa; Cyril the Deacon, and others martyred during the reign of Julian Our Holy Father John the Hermit (4th c.)	30 Lenten Fast St John Klimakos (John of the Ladder) of Sinai (649) Commemoration of an Uncondemning Monk	31 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas St Innocent, enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879) Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra (326) St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (1461)