Orthodox Calendar for Decembrie 2026

Decembrie 2026
Dum	Lun	Mar	Mie	Joi	Vin	Sâm
		1 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Martyr Plato (266) Holy Martyr Romanus and the holy child who declared for Christ (305) Holy New Martyr Anastasius of Epirus (1750), and Daniel, whom he converted	2 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Obadiah (Abdias) Our Holy Father Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1867) Holy Martyr Barlaam of Antioch (304) Our Holy Fathers Barlaam and Joasaph of India (4th c.)	3 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Our Holy Father Gregory of Decapolis (842) Our Holy Father Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople (447)	4 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Entry of the Most-Holy Theotokos into the Temple The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple in Jerusalem.	5 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Apostle Philemon and Sts Apphia, Archippus and Onesimus Holy Martyrs Cecilia, Valerian, Tiburtius and Maximus, at Rome (3rd c.) Holy Prince and Passion-Bearer Peter Yaropolk (1086) Holy Grand Prince and Martyr Michael of Tver (1318)
6 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 27th Sunday after Pentecost Rt. Blv. Great Prince Alexander Nevsky St Alexander Nevsky (1263) Our Holy Father Amphilocus, Bishop of Iconium (395) St Columban, Abbot of Luxeuil (615)	7 Nativity Fast Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Rome (ca. 100) Holy Hieromartyr Peter of Alexandria (312) Holy Martyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)	8 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of the Entry Holy Great Martyr and Most Wise Catherine of Alexandria and those with her (305) Great Martyr Mercurius (ca. 259)	9 Nativity Fast Our Holy Father Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk (1731) Our Holy Father Alypius the Stylite (ca. 607) St Nikon Metanoite ("Repent!") (ca. 1000) Holy New Martyr George of Chios (1897)	10 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Great Martyr James the Persian (421) Repose of Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore) (1992) (Nov. 14 OC)	11 Nativity Fast Our Holy Father, Confessor and Martyr Stephen the New (767)	12 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Martyr Paramon and his 370 Companions (ca. 250) Our Holy Father Pitirim of Egypt (4th c.)
13 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 28th Sunday after Pentecost Holy Apostle Andrew the First Called Holy, Glorious and Illustrious Apostle Andrew the First-Called Our Venerable Father Frumentius, first Bishop of Ethiopia (4th c.)	14 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Nahum (7th c. BC) Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762) Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660)	15 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)	16 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias) (7th c. BC) Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558)	17 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)	18 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)	19 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)
20 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 29th 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)	21 Nativity Fast Our Venerable Father Patapius (6th or 7th c.) Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus and Epaphroditus, Cephas and Caesar	22 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)	23 Nativity Fast Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus (235)	24 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)	25 Nativity Fast St Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836) Our Holy Godbearing Father Spyridon the Wonderworker (348). St Finian of Clonard (549)	26 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)
27 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 30th 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.)	28 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)	29 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Prophet Haggai (ca. 520 BC) Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893)	30 Nativity Fast Holy Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Misael Our Holy Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)	31 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Martyr Sebastian and those with him (287) Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634)