Protomartyr Stephen
Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon StephenMartyr
- Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the HymnographerRighteous
- Theodore, Patriarch of ConstantinopleHierarch
Appointed readings
- Acts 6:8–7:5, 47–60
- Matthew 21:33–42
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 27 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 9 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.