November 23 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)

November 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 10.

Feasts

* Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.December 6 / November 23
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Saints

* Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius (251) Συναξαριστής.
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* Saint Sisinius the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (c. 325)November 23 / December 6
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
* Venerable Ischyrion, Bishop in Egypt and hermit of Scete.
* Venerable Helenus, Bishop of Tarsus.
* Martyr Theodore of Antioch (after 363)
* Saint Amphilochius of Iconium, Bishop of Iconium (394)
* Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum, Sicily (690)November 23
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101) ''(see also: Jan 4, Apr 22, Sept 10 and Nov 25 - East)''
* Saint Felicity, a widow martyred with her sons either in Rome or else in North Africa under Decius, buried in Rome (c. 165) ''(see also: January 25 - East)''
* Virgin-martyr Lucretia, in Mérida in the west of Spain (306)
* Saint Paternian, Bishop of Fano in Italy (c. 343)
* Saint Clement, first Bishop of Metz in the east of France.
* Saint Paulinus of Wales (''Polin, Pewlin, Paulhen''), an Abbot in Wales and disciple of St Illtyd, founder of the monastery of Whitland (c. 505)
* ''Saint Columbanus, Irish missionary and founder of Luxeuil Abbey and Bobbio Abbey'' (615)
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. ''(see also: November 21)''
* Saint Wilfetrudis, second Abbess of Nivelles in Belgium, founded by her aunt St Gertrude (c. 670)
* Venerable Trudo (''Trudon, Tron, Trond, Truyen, Trudjen''), Abbot, of Zirkingen (c. 695)
* Saint Rachildis, an anchoress who lived near the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland (c. 946)
* Saint Adalbert, a monk at Cassoria in the Abruzzi in Italy, founder of the monastery of St Nicholas on Mt Caramanico near Chieti (c. 1045)
* Saint Guy of Casauria, a monk at Farfa who became Abbot of Casauria Abbey near Chieti in Italy (1045)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122) (''see also: August 28 '')
* Burial of Saint Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), Grand Prince of Novgorod (1263)6 декабря (23 ноября)
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
* Saint Dionysius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, "the Wise" (1492)
* Saint Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh (1703)
* Saint Anthony of lezeru-Vilcea, Romania (1714)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 88.

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Tievar), Hieromonk, of Moscow (1931)23 ноября по старому стилю / 6 декабря по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2018 год.
* Saint John Vasiliev, Confessor (1932)
* New Hieromartyr Boris (Voskoboinikov), Bishop of Ivanovo (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Eleazar Spyridonov of Eupatoria, Priest, first rector of the Greek Church of St. Elijah (Yevpatoria) in Crimea (1937)
* Martyr Alexander Uksusov of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
* New Hieomartyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942)
Hieromartyr Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Icon gallery

File:Amphilochius of Iconium (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, St Amphilochius of Iconium.
File:Menologion of Basil 029.jpg, St Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum.
File:Icon of saint Clemens (17th c, Perm, Usolye).jpg, St Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles.
File:Metz Cathedral 003.JPG, St Clément of Metz.
File:Saint Columbanus window at Abbey of Bobbio.jpg, St Columbanus.
File:Alexander Newski.jpg, St Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod.
File:Reliquary 1788 Dionysios Kushnitsa Monastery NHMB.jpg, Two 1788 reliquaries of St Dionysius I
('' Panagia Ikosifinissa Monastery, Greece'')
File:Saint Mitrophan of Voronezh.jpg, Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh.
File:Иеромонах Серафим (Тьевар).jpg, New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Tievar), Hieromonk, of Moscow.
File:Grzegorz Peradze.png, New Martyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia.

Notes

References

Sources

November 23 / December 6
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

December 6 / November 23
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

November 23
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
* The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 88.
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'' Orthodoxy in China.


Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* '' The Roman Martyrology.'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 361-362.
* Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 562-563.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
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ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.
Russian Sources
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Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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23 ноября по старому стилю / 6 декабря по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2018 год.

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