December 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 28
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 9 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 14.
Feasts
- Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity
Saints
Apostle and Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr- Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria
- Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea '
- Saint Theodore I, Patriarch of Constantinople Venerable Theodore Graptus of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor, brother of Saint Theophanes the Confessor'''
- Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia in Bithynia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev, son of Saint Yaroslav the Wise
- Saint Barlaam, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia
- Venerable Abbot Boniface Vinogradsky, founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Tikhon Nikanorov, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests
- New Virgin Martyr Antonina
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Therapont of Belozersk and Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk
- Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars
- Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam
- Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova
- Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Gregoriou Monastery, Mount Athos
- Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim Rozenberg of the Pskov-Caves Monastery
Icons
- All-Merciful Kykko Icon of the Mother of God