December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Jan 21, 2024

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Dec. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Feasts

Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107) (see also January 29)

Saint Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor (323)

Martyrs Liberatus and Bajulus, at Rome.

Saint Ursicinus of Cahors, Bishop of Cahors in France (ca.585)

Saint Dominic of Brescia, successor of St Anastasius as Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca.612)

Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne, born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Columbanus, and founded the monastery of St Ursanne (ca.625)

Saint Daniel II, Archbishop of Serbia (1338)

Saint Ignatius, Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (1435)

New Martyr John of the island of Thasos, at Constantinople, by beheading (1652)

Saint Anthony (Smirnitsky), Archbishop of Voronezh (1846)

Righteous John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (1908)

Novgorod Icon of the Theotokos, "Deliverance of the Drowning" ("Rescuer of the Drowning").

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