January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 5
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 22.
Feasts
Saints
Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles- Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace
- Martyrs Chrysanthus and Euphemia in Constantinople
- Martyrs Zosimas the Hermit and Athanasius the Commentarisius, anchorites of Cilicia
- Venerable Theoprobus of Karpasia, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus
- Venerable Apollinaria the Senator of Egypt '
- Venerable Evagrius, with Saint Elias the Deacon, and other Disciples of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, of the Shio-Mgvime Monastery in Georgia
- The Holy Six Martyrs '
- Saint Euthymius the Younger, Monk of Thessalonica
- Venerable Timothy the Stylite of Kakhshata
- Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop
- Martyr Uvelicius
- Martyr Amma
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome
- Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome
- Saint Mavilus, a martyr in Hadrumetum in North Africa, thrown to wild beasts at the time of Caracalla
- Martyrs Priscus, Priscillian and Benedicta, in Rome
- Martyr Dafrosa, the mother of Saint Bibiana, was martyred in Rome under Julian the Apostate
- Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Eugene, Marcian, Quintus, Theodotus and Tryphon, in North Africa under the Arian Hunneric, King of the Vandals
- Saint Gregory, Bishop of Langres in Gaul, renowned for miracles
- Saint Ferreolus of Uzès, Bishop of Uzès
- Saint Pharäildis, one of the patron-saints of Ghent
- Saint Rigobert, Archbishop of Rheims and Confessor
- Venerable Theoctistus, Abbot of Cucomo Monastery, Sicily
- Saint Libentius, born in Swabia in Germany, he became Archbishop of Hamburg in 988
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Repose of Saint Jevstatije I, Archbishop of Serbia
- Saint Aquila, Deacon of the Kiev Caves
- Venerable Symeon, Metropolitan of Smolensk
- Venerable Nikephoros the Leper
New martyrs and confessors
- New Venerable Hieromartyr Euthymius, Abbot, and twelve monk-martyrs of Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos, who suffered martyrdom for denouncing the Latinizing rulers Michael VIII Palaiologos and John XI Bekkos of Constantinople as heretics
- New Venerable Martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Gabrovo and Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, on Chios
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Skalsky, Stephan Ponomarev, and Philip Grigoriev, Archpriests of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
- New Hieromartyr Mark Novoselov, Bishop of Sergievsk
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Maslov, Priest of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
- New Hieromartyr Paul Felitsyn, Priest
Other commemorations
- Finding of the holy relics of New Martyr John the ex-Muslim of Konitsa, in the Holy Monastery of Prousou in Evrytania, Greece