January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 3
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 15 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on December 20.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Saints
- Saint Theodota, mother of the first Saints Cosmas and Damian
- Martyr Sergius, by the sword, at Caesarea in Cappadocia
- Martyr Theopistus, by stoning
- Hieromartyr Theogenes, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont Saint Sylvester I, Pope of Rome
- Martyr Basil of Ancyra, under Julian the Apostate
- Hieromartyr Isidore, Bishop of Antioch, by the Arians
- Righteous Theopemptos, Monk
- Venerable Mark the Deaf Mute
- Saint Amun of Tabennisi, monk
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Artaxus, Acutus, Eugenda, Maximianus, Timothy, Tobias and Vitus, in Syrmium in Pannonia
- Martyrs of Rome, many martyrs who suffered in Rome under Diocletian for refusing to give up the Holy Scriptures
- Thousand Martyrs of Lichfield in England:
- Saint Martinianus, Bishop of Milan, Italy, took part in the Third Oecumenical Council at Ephesus and wrote against Nestorianism
- Saint Aspasius, Bishop of Auch, France, took part in the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Councils of Orleans in 533, 541 and 549, besides holding a council in Auch in 551
- Saint Schottin, hermit of Kilkenny, Ireland
- Saint Seiriol the Righteous, Abbott of Penmon Priory, brother of King Cynlas of Rhos and King Einion of Llŷn
- Saint Munchin the Wise, probably the first Bishop of Limerick and also its patron-saint
- Saint Blidulf, a monk at Bobbio Abbey, Italy who bravely denounced the heresy of the Lombard King Ariovald, an Arian
- Saint Vincentian, a disciple of Saint Menelaus, he became a hermit near Tulle in Auvergne, France
- Saint Adalard of Corbie
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Cosmas I the Jerusalemite and Wonderworker, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Venerable Sylvester the Wonderworker of the Kiev Near Caves
- Venerable Neilos Erichiotis the Sanctified
- Righteous Juliana the Merciful of Lazarevo and Murom Repose 'and Second Finding of the Relics of Venerable Seraphim, Wonderworker of Sarov'
- Venerable Gennadios of Kerkyra
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr George the Georgian, at Mytilene
- New Confessor Smaragda, Abbess of Nezhinsk, Ukraine
- New Martyr Basil Petrov
Other commemorations
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Gabriel of Optina Monastery and Whitehoof Convent
- Repose of Abbess Thaisia of Leushino Monastery
- Martyred Elder Ioasaph of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery
- Repose of Elder Iakovos of Epirus