February 2/15 Meeting of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Kozelschanska Icon of the Mother of God.
February 3/16 St Svyatoslav and his son, St Dmitry of Yuriev (1253). St Roman, prince of Uhlitsk (1285). St Simeon, Bishop of Polotsk (1289). St Ignatius of Mariupil in Crimea, Metropolitan of Kafa (1786) This Greek bishop emigrated with his entire eparchy to Crimea to escape the relentless persecution of the Ottoman empire and was glorified a saint by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church).
February 4/17 St Yurij, prince of Volodymyr (1238).
February 5/18 St Theodosius (Uhlitsky-Polonitsky), archbishop of Chernihiv, tonsured at the Kyiv Caves Lavra (1696). Icon of the Mother of God “Searcher for the Lost.”
February 6/19 St Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople. St Theophane the New Recluse, Archbishop of Poltava (1940).
February 7/20 St Euthymius, monk of Hlinsk Hermitage (1866)
February 8/21 Sts John and Basil of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.).
February 9/22 St Pancratius, Hieromonk of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.). Uncovering of the relics of St Innocent (Kulchitsky), bishop of Irkutsk (1731).
February 10/23 Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs of Novhorod: St Joachim (1030 Bishop of Korsun who was with St Volodymyr the Great at his Baptism), St Luka Zhidiaty (1060), St Herman (1095), St Arcady (1162), St Gregory (1193), St Martyrius (1199), St Anthony (1231) and St Moses (1362) with others. St Anna of Novhorod (1050 – wife of St Yaroslav the Wise). St Prochor of the Kyiv Caves (1107).
Prince Saint Constantine Ostrozhky (glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate).
St Luke, Bishop of Novhorod (1058). St Mstislav Udaly, Prince of Halychyna (1228).
February 11/24 St Vsevolod-Gabriel, Prince and Wonderworker of Pskov. St Dmitry, monk of Priluki.
February 12/25 St Alexius, Metroplitan of Kyiv (1378). St Meletius, archbishop of Kharkiv (1840).
February 13/26 St Yurij (Konissky) archbishop of Mohyliv (1795). St Seraphim (Sobolov) Vicar of Poltara, Bishop of Lubensk (1950).
February 14/27 St Cyril, Equal to the Apostles, teacher of the Slavs (869). St Isaac, Recluse of the Kyiv Caves (1090). Translation of the Relics of St Michael, Prince of Chernihiv and his Boyar, St Theodore, Wonderworkers (1245). St Raphael (Hawaweeny), Bishop of Brooklyn, NY (1915) A hierarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, he completed his theological studies in Kyiv, considered himself a “spiritual Slav-Ukrainian” and warmly welcomed and spiritually aided Ukrainian immigrants to North America.
Commemoration of martyred Protopresbyters of Poltava: Fr Alexander Kaminsky, Fr. John Bohdanovsky, Fr Gabriel Hromnitsky, Fr. John Leschynsky and Fr Leonid Kapetsky (1935).
February 15/28 St Paphnutius, recluse of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.).
February 17/March 2 Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro (“Bohdan” – 306). St Theodore the Silent of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.). St Theodore, monk of the Kyiv Zverynetsky Caves (1096). Weeping icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God at the Kozak Skete of St Elias on Mt Athos.
February 18/March 3 St Cosmas, Abbot of Yakhromske (1492 – Monk and missionary of the Kyiv Caves Lavra). Yakhromska Icon of the Mother of God.
February 20/March 5 St Agathon, wonderworker of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.).
Saint Yaroslav the Wise, son of St Volodymyr the Great, Sovereign of Kyivan Rus’ (11th c.). St Yaroslav is the builder of St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv which, on September 21st, 2011, celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its consecration.
February 21/March 6 St Macarius, Hiero-schemamonk of Hlinsk Hermitage (1864). Kozelschanska Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God.
February 22/March 7 Hierach St Simon (Todorsky) of the Kyiv Caves Lavra, professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Archbishop of Pskov (1754).
February 23/March 8 St Polycarp, monk of Briansk (1621). St Seraphim (Zenobius), schema-metropolitan of Georgia, monk of Hlinsk Monastery (1985). St Amfilokhy (Furs – 1969).
February 24/March 9 First and Second Findings of the Precious Head of St John the Baptist. St Erasmus of the Kyiv Caves (1160). Uncovering of the relics of St Roman, Prince of Uhlitsk (in 1486).
February 25/March 10 St Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (806 - namesday of the Ukrainian poet and bard, Taras Shevchenko). New Hieromartyr Leo Korobchuk, Priest of Laskiv, Cholm and Pidlasia (1944).
February 26/March 11 Martyrdom of New Hieromartyr St Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk, Bishop of Prilutsk and Vicar of Poltava (1920 – paternal uncle of Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura). Mezhetska Icon of the Mother of God.
February 27/March 12 St Titus, Priest of the Kyiv Caves (1190). St Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.). Twelve Holy Greek Architects of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.
February 28/March 13 Holy Great Hieromartyr St Arsenius (Matsievich), Metropolitan of Rostov, Wonderworker and Confessor (1772) He was walled up in prison after being stripped of his ecclesiastical ranks for criticizing the Russian government’s control over the Church – more than 200 miracles were reported to have occurred at his intercession.
February 29 (commemorated on February 28 in non-leap years) St John Cassian the Scythian, abbot of Marseilles - famous for his Conferences where he describes the spiritual life of the ascetics of northern Africa, he was considered a “Ukrainian ancestor” and so was prominent as a saint of the Ukrainian Church. St Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kyiv Caves (12th c.). St Meletius, archbishop of Kharkiv (1840).
