January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 8

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 25.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

 * Synaxis of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist Saint John.
 * Saint Julian the Deacon, of Aegina (391)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Crispin, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he signed the acts of the Council of Milan (467).
 * Saint Valentine, an abbot who became a bishop in Rhaetia (470)
 * Saint Brannock of Braunton (Brannocus, Brynach), England (6th century)  (see also: June 26)
 * Saint Cedd, Bishop of Lastingham (664) (see also: October 26)
 * Saint Cronan Beg, a Bishop of Aendrum in County Down in Ireland (7th century)
 * Saint Tillo of Solignac (Thillo, Thielman, Théau, Tilloine, Tillmann) (702)
 * Saint Kentigerna, Hermitess of Loch Lomond (734).
 * Saint Emilian (Émilion, Aemilio), born in Vannes, he was a monk at Saujon near Saintes, and died as a hermit in the forest of Combes near Bordeaux (767)
 * Blessed Widukind (Wittekind, Wittikind, Wittikund) of Westphalia (807)
 * Saint Aldric of Le Mans (Aldericus, Audry), Bishop of Le Mans in France, from 832 (856)
 * Saint Reinold (Rainald, Reynold), monk at the monastery of St Pantaleon in Cologne in Germany (960)
 * Saint Anastasius of Sens, Archbishop of Sens (977)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Feodor I of Russia (Fyodor (Theodore) I Ivanovich), last Rurikid Tsar of Russia (1598)
 * New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia and Smyrna (1700)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Alexander Skalsky, of Alma-Ata, Protopresbyter (1933)
 * New Hieromartyr Paphnutius (Kostin), Hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1939)
 * Martyr John (1940)
 * Martyr John (1942)

Other commemorations

 * The Miracle of Saint John the Baptist in Chios (1740)