November 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 8

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For November 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 25.

Saints

• Holy 33 Martyrs of Melitene (290):^{[1][2][3][4][note 2]}

• Hieron, Hesychius, Nicander, Athanasius, Mamas, Barachius, Callinicus, Theogenes, Nicon, Longinus, Theodore, Valerius, Xanthius, Theodulus, Callimachus, Eugene, Theodochus, Ostrychius, Epiphanius, Maximian, Ducitius, Claudian, Theophilus, Gigantius, Dorotheus, Theodotus, Castrychius, Anicetus, Theomelius, Eutychius, Hilarion, Diodotus, and Amonitus.

• Martyrs Matronian and Anthony, brothers of martyr Hieron, at Melitene (290)^[6][7]
• Saint Gregory, brother of St. Gregory the Wonderworker (3rd century)^[1][7][8]
• Martyrs Auctus, Taurion, and Thessaloniki, at Amphipolis in Macedonia.^{[1][3][5][9][10]}
• Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303)^[1][11][12] (see also: May 18)
• Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (c. 305)^[1][3][13]
• Martyrs Melasippus, Cassina, their son Antoninus, and 40 children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra (363)^{[1][3][5][14][15]}
• Venerable Ambrosios.^[3][7][16]
• Saint Athenodorus.^[3][7][17]
• Venerable Lazarus the Wonderworker, of Mt. Galesion, near Ephesus (1054)^{[1][3][11][18][19]} (see also: July 17, July 18)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Prosdocimus, first Bishop of Padua in Italy (c. 100)^{[20][note 3]}
• Saint Amaranthus, a martyr venerated in Albi in the south of France (3rd century)^{[20][note 4]}
• Saint Rufus of Metz, an early Bishop of Metz in France, and Confessor, he was bishop for some twenty-nine years (c. 400)^[5][20]
• Saint Herculanus of Perugia, Martyr-Bishop of Perugia in Italy, beheaded by soldiers of Totila of the Ostrogoths (549)^[5][20] (see also: March 1)
• Saint Congar of Congresbury (Cumgar, Cyngar), founder of monasteries in Badgworth, Congresbury in Somerset, and in Llangennith in Wales (6th century)^{[20][note 5][note 6]}
• Saint Tremorus of Brittany, infant son of St Triphina, he was the patron saint of Carhaix (6th century)^[20]
• Saint Gebetrude (Gertrude), third Abbess of Remiremont Abbey in France (c. 675)^[20]
• Saint Raverranus, Bishop of Séez in France (682)^[20]
• Saint Gertrude of Remiremont, granddaughter of St Romaricus, and Abbess after her aunt at the convent of Saint-Mont near Remiremont, France (c. 690)^[20]
• Saint Florentius of Strasbourg, Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 693)^{[5][20][note 7]}
• Saint Amarand, Abbot of Moissac Abbey in France, became Bishop of Albi (c. 700)^[20]
• Saint Willibrord (Clement), Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia (739)^{[1][7][11][20][21][22][note 8][note 9]}
• Saint Blinlivet (Blevileguetus), the twenty-fifth Bishop of Vannes in Brittany (9th century)^[20]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Zosimas, founder of the Annunciation Monastery at Lake Vorbozomsk (1550)^{[1][11][23][24][note 10]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs (1937):^[11][25]

• Cyril (Smirnov) Metropolitan of Kazan;^{[1][24][note 11]}
• Michael Adamantov, Alexander Ilyinsky, Aleksander Kurmysh, Michael Gusev,^{[1][note 12]} Aleksander Krylov, Nikolai Romanovsky, Alexei Molchanov, Paul Borisoglebsky, Basil Krasnov, and Paulinus, Priests;
• John Moshkov and Benjamin Vladimirsky, Deacons;
• Martyr Nicholas Filippov;
• Virgin-martyr Elisabeth Sidorova.^[26]

• New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Archbishop of Eletsk; Nicholas Troitsky, priest; and Martyr Gregory Yurenev (1937)^[11][25][27]
• New Hieromartyr Joseph (Petrovykh), Metropolitan of Petrograd (1937)^[1][11]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1649) of St. Cyril (1532), founder of Novoezersk Monastery, Novgorod.^{[1][7][11][24][25][28][note 13]}
• Icon of the Mother of God "Leaping with Joy" (Vzigranie) (1795)^{[11][24][25][29][30]}
• Ukaz № 362 of November 7/20, 1920, Russian Church Abroad formed.^{[31][note 14]}
• Uncovering of the relics (1995) of hieromartyr Constantine Golubev (1918), presbyter (1995)^{[25][32][note 15]}

Icon gallery

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  Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra.

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  St Herculanus of Perugia.

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  St. Congar of Congresbury at the Museum of Somerset.

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  St Willibrord (Clement), Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia.

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  New Hieromartyr Cyril (Smirnov) Metropolitan of Kazan.

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  New Hieromartyr Joseph (Petrovykh), Metropolitan of Petrograd.

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  New Hieromartyr Michael Gusev, priest.

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  Venerable Cyril of Novoezersk.

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  New Hieromartyr Constantine Golubev, Archpriest.