December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 3
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 15 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 19.
Saints
Prophet Habakkuk Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius- Martyr Abibus the New of Edessa, Deacon, burned at the stake
- Saints John, Heraclemon, Andrew and Theophilus, of Oxyrhynchus, hermits of Egypt
- Saint Moses the Confessor
- Venerable Jesse, Bishop of Tsilkani in Georgia, of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers
- Saint Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus ''''
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Evasius, First Bishop of Brescia in Italy
- Saint Lupus, Bishop of Verona in Italy, Confessor
- Martyrs Eusebius, a priest; Marcellus, a deacon; Hippolytus, Maximus, Adria, Paulina, Neon, Mary, Martana, and Aurelia - under Valerian
- Martyr Pontian, with four others, at Rome, under Valerian
- Saint Bibiana, a holy virgin martyred in Rome
- Saint Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia near Venice, friend of Saint John Chrysostom, Confessor
- Martyrs Severus, Securus, Januarius and Victorinus, martyrs in North Africa who suffered under the Vandals
- Saint Silverius, Pope of Rome
- Saint Trumwine of Abercorn, the only ever Bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts ''''
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Cyril Phileotes
- Venerable Abbacum the Ascetic of Cyprus, Wonderworker
- Saint Athanasius "the Resurrected," recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Near Caves
- Saint Athanasius, recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Far Caves
- Saint Stephen-Urosh V, King of Serbia, and his mother Saint Helena of Bulgaria, Empress of Serbia
- Venerable Joannicius of Devič, Serbia
- Venerable Paisie Olaru of Sihăstria
- Venerable Elder Porphyrios Bairaktaris, Wonderworker of Kafsokalyvia and Kallisa, an Athonite hieromonk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment
- Venerable Cleopa Ilie of Sihăstria
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Matthew Alexandrov, Priest of Simferopol-Crimea
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Blagoveshtensky, priest, and Venarable Vera Grafovoy, Confessor
- New Hieromartyrs :
- * Constantine Nekrasov and Nicholas Vinogradsky, Protopresbyters of Moscow;
- * Sergius Felitsin, Vladimir Proferansov, John Derzhavin, Theodore Alexinsky, Nicholas Zabolotsky, John Dniprovsky, Nicholas Safonov, Priests;
- * Hieromartyr Danax Kalashnikov, Hieromonk of Arkhangelskoye, Moscow;
- * Hieromartyr Cosmas Magda, Hieromonk of Milyatino, Moscow;
- * Hieromartyrs : Theuromia, Tamara Provorkinoy, Antonina Stepanova, and Mary Dmitrievska;
- * Virgin-martyrs: Mary Zhuravlevoy and Matrona Konyukhova.
- Virgin-martyr Mary Zeitlin
- Martyr Boris Uspensky
- Venerable New Hiero-Confessor Alexei Kabalyuk of Carpathia, Schema-Archimandrite, of Khust, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia
Other commemorations
- Synaxis of the Gerontissa Icon of the Mother of God
- Repose of Elder Luke "the Guestmaster" of Valaam,