December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 23
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 9.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ
Saints
Great Martyr Anastasia of Rome and Sirmium, the Deliverer from Bonds and Poisons, and:- Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italy
- Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome
- Martyr Flavian, former Prefect of Rome
- Saint Hunger, Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died
- Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, Monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Boris Talantov of Kostroma, Soviet teacher, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR, church publicist and political prisoner
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Dimitry Kiranov, Archpriest of Yaroslavl, and Theodore Poroikov, Archpriest of Yalta
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Thyranoixia of the "Great Church of Christ", the Hagia Sophia
- Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery