December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 3
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 15 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 19.Saints
- Prophet Habakkuk
- Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius
- Martyr Abibus the New, Deacon, burned at the stake
- Saints John, Heraclemon, Andrew and Theophilus, of Oxyrhynchus, hermits of Egypt
- Saint Moses the Confessor.
- Venerable Jesse, Bishop of Tsilkani in Georgia
- Saint Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Evasius, First Bishop of Brescia in Italy.
- Saint Lupus, Bishop of Verona in Italy, Confessor.
- Martyrs Eusebius, a priest; Marcellus, a deacon; Hippolytus, Maximus, Adria, Paulina, Neon, Mary, Martana, and Aurelia - under Valerian
- Martyr Pontian, with four others, at Rome, under Valerian
- Saint Bibiana, a holy virgin martyred in Rome
- Saint Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia near Venice, friend of St John Chrysostom, Confessor
- Martyrs Severus, Securus, Januarius and Victorinus, martyrs in North Africa who suffered under the Vandals
- Saint Silverius, Pope of Rome
- Saint Trumwine of Abercorn, the only ever Bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Cyril of Phileotes
- Venerable Abbacum the Ascetic of Cyprus, Wonderworker
- Saint Athanasius “the Resurrected,” recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Near Caves
- Saint Athanasius, recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Far Caves
- Saint Stephen-Urosh V, King of Serbia, and his mother St. Helena, of Serbia.
- Saint Joannicius of Devič, Serbia
- Venerable Hiero-Confessor, Schema-Archimandrite, of Khust, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia
- Venerable Elder Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia, an Athonite hieromonk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John, priest
- New Hieromartyr Matthew Alexandrov, priest of Simferopol-Crimea
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Blagoveshtensky, priest, and Venarable Vera Grafovoy, Confessor
- New Hieromartyrs :
- * Constantine Nekrasov and Nicholas Vinogradsky, Protopresbyters of Moscow;
- * Sergius Felitsin, Vladimir Proferansov, John Derzhavin, Theodore Alexinsky, Nicholas Zabolotsky, John Dniprovsky, Nicholas Safonov, Priests;
- * Hieromartyrs Danact Kalashnikov of Moscow and Alma Ata, and Cosmas Magda;
- * Hieromartyrs : Theuromia, Tamara Provorkinoy, Antonina Stepanova, and Mary Dmitrievska;
- * Virgin-martyrs: Mary Zhuravlevoy and Matrona Konyukhova.
- Virgin-martyr Mary Zeitlin
- Martyr Boris Uspensky
Other commemorations
- Repose of Elder Luke “the Guestmaster” of Valaam,
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