January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 10.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus (312)
 * Saint Ascholius, Bishop of Thessaloniki (383)
 * Venerable Eusebius, recluse of Mount Coryphe near Antioch (4th century)
 * Venerable Salamanes the Silent (Salamanes the Hesychast), of the Euphrates, monk (ca. 400)
 * Venerable Mausimas the Syrian, priest near Cyrrhus (before 423)
 * Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)
 * The Holy Two Martyrs of Parium, near Cyzicus and Lampsacus, in Asia Minor.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Emerentiana, a martyr in Rome (305)
 * Saint Amasius of Teano, Bishop of Teano in central Italy (356)
 * Saints Severian and Aquila, a husband and wife martyred in Julia Caesarea in Mauritania in North Africa.
 * Saint Martyrius (Martory), a hermit in the Abruzzi in Italy (6th century)
 * Saint Ormond (Armand), monk of the monastery of Saint Mairé in France, where he became abbot (6th century)
 * Saint Ildefonsus, Metropolitan Bishop of Toledo from 657 (667)
 * Saint Colman of Lismore, Abbot of Lismore Abbey in Ireland and also a bishop (702)
 * Saint Lufthild, a saint honoured near Cologne in Germany, where she lived as an anchoress (ca. 850)
 * Saint Maimbod (Mainboeuf), martyred by pagans while preaching to peasants near Kaltenbrunn in Alsace, now in France (ca. 880)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Dionysius of Olympus and Mt. Athos (1541)
 * Venerable Gennadius of Kostroma, monk (1565)
 * Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich, in Kostroma Oblast (16th century) (see also: March 27)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Bulashov), Abbot of Holy Transfiguration Guslitsky Monastery (Moscow) (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Anatolius (Grisjuk) of Odessa, Bishop and Martyr (1938)
 * Virgin-martyrs Evdokia and Ekaterine (1938)
 * Virgin-martyr Militsa (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681)   (see also: September 14)
 * Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma.
 * Translation of the relics (1786) of St. Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)
 * Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam Monastery (1881)
 * Repose of Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (2006)