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January 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 21.

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 2 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 7.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr Zachariah (Zacharias) of Patras, Morea (1782)
  • New Hieromartyr Ioan Pettai, Estonian Martyr Presbyter
  • New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromyslov, Archpriest of Ryazan (1940)
  • Venerable New Confessor Ekvtime (Euthymius) Kereselidze of Georgia (1944) <small>(see also: February 2 - Greek)</small>

Other commemorations

  • Repose of Elder Gerasim, founder of Ascension Monastery, Irkutsk (1676)

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Notes

References

Sources

  • January 20 / February 2. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • February 2 / January 20. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • January 20. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 9.
  • January 20. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 20–21.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources