December 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 25.
Saints
Holy Apostles of the Seventy :- * Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus. Holy Apostle Epaphras of the Seventy Disciples Venerable Patapios of Thebes
- Holy 362 Martyrs of Africa, martyred by the Arians :
- * 62 priests and 300 laymen martyred by the Arians.
- Saint Victoria of Culusi
- Venerable Sophronius I, Bishop of Cyprus
- Saint Damian, Bishop of Cyprus
- Venerable Aeros, Archbishop of the Church of Jerusalem.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Eucharius, first Bishop of Trier in Germany
- Saint Valerius of Trèves, second Bishop of Trier in Germany
- Saint Eutychian, Pope of Rome, venerated as a martyr
- Saint Valerian of Abbenza, Bishop, martyred by Vandals Martyr Anthusa at Rome
- Saint Budoc, Bishop of Dol and Plourin
- Saint Romaricus, monk at Luxeuil Abbey, later founded the monastery of Habendum, and became the second abbot
- Saint Gunthild, a nun from Wimborne in England, went to Germany and became Abbess of a convent in Thuringia
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Martirius
- Saint Moskhian Saint Cyril, Founder and Abbot of Chelmogorsk Monastery, Karelia, Enlightener of the Chudian People
- Saint Parthenios of Chios
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Protopresbyter, of Perm
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Fedoseyev, Priest, of Perm
- New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Orlov