Hierarch
Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (9th C)
In Russian: Свт. Фотия, Патриарха Константинопольского (891)
In Church Slavonic: Ст҃а́гѡ фѡ́тїа, патрїа́рха кѡнстанті́нѧ гра́да (891)
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (6 February on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
2027
Old calendar
- (6 February on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 19 February 2026
- Cheesefare Thursday
- Apodosis of the Meeting of the Lord
- Saint Bucolus, Bishop of Smyrna († c. 100)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Demetrius and Martyr Anatolius († 1921)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Basil († 1930)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Alexander († 1938)
- Virgin-martyrs Dorothy and two sisters - Christina and Callista - and the Martyr Theophilus at Cæsarea in Cappadocia († c. 288-300)
- Virgin-martyr Fausta and with her, Evilasius and Maximus, at Cyzicus († c. 305-311)
- Martyr Julian of Emesa († 312)
- Venerable Barsanuphius the Great and Venerable John the Prophet (6th C)
- Martyrs Martha, Mary, and their brother Lycarion