January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 6

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 23.

Feasts

 * Eve of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Saints

 * Prophet Micah (9th century BC) (see also: August 14)
 * Martyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia and Martyr Theonas, former sorcerer (303)
 * Martyr Sais.
 * Martyr Theoidus.
 * Saint Syncletica of Alexandria, nun (c. 350 or c. 460)
 * Venerable Domnina (Domna).
 * Venerable Tatiana, nun.
 * Saint Apollinaris, Virgin, of Egypt (c. 470) (see also: January 4)
 * Venerable Phosterius the Hermit (6th century)
 * Saint Menas of Sinai (6th century)
 * Venerable Gregory of Crete, monk (c. 820)
 * Venerable Dorotheos the Younger, restorer of the ancient Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Chiliokomon in Amaseia, Pontus.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Hieromartyr Saint Telesphorus, a Greek who was Pope of Rome for ten years (c. 136) (see also February 22, Eastern Orthodox)
 * Saint Emiliana, a Roman lady and the paternal aunt of Pope St Gregory the Great (6th century)
 * Saint Kiara (Chier), a spiritual daughter of St Fintan Munnu; she lived in Ireland near Nenagh in Co. Tipperary, at a place now called Kilkeary after her (c. 680)
 * Venerable Cera of Ireland (Ciar, Cyra, Cior, Ceara), Abbess (7th century)
 * Venerable Conwoïon (Convoyon), a Breton saint and Abbot (868)
 * Saint Gaudentius of Gnesen (Radim Gaudentius), first Archbishop of Gnesen in Poland (1004)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Monk-martyr Romanus of Carpenision and Kapsokalyvia, at Constantinople (1694) (see also February 16)
 * Venerable Symeon of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1960)
 * Venerable Theophan, Schema-Archimandrite of the Rykhlovsk Monastery (ru), Ukraine (1977)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Archpriest Andrei Zimin (1920)
 * New Hieromartyr Joseph Bespalov, and with him 37 Martyrs (1921)
 * Hieromartyr Stephen Ponomarev, Protopresbyter, at Alma-Ata (1933)
 * Virgin-martyr Eugenia Domozhirova, at Alma-Ata (1933)
 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Lavrov, Priest (1934)
 * Martyr Matthew Gusev (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics of St. Rumon of Tavistock, Bishop, to Tavistock Abbey.
 * Repose of Monk Alexander of Valaam Monastery (1810)