2 November
19 commemorations of 2 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 15 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- The Holy Senators of Sebasteia, martyrs of senatorial rank, martyred under Licinius, by fire (c. 315)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Συγκλητικοίsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrs Eudoxios (Eudoxius), Agapios (Agapius), Atticus (Attikos), Marinus, Oceanus, Eustratios, Karterios (Carterius), Nikopolitianos (Nictopolion), Styrax... (c. 315)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐδόξιος, Ἀγάπιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶν ὀκτὼ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Women-Martyrs Kyriaki (Cyriaca), Domnina and Domna, by the swordΟἱ Ἁγίες Κυριακή, Δομνίνα καὶ Δόμνα οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus, and 7,000 with them, of Persia, during the reign of King Sapor II (341)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀκίνδυνος, Ἀφθόνιος, Πηγάσιος, Ἐλπιδοφόρος (ἢ Ἐλπιδηφόρος) καὶ Ἀνεμπόδιστοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk in Syria, confessor (c. 388)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μαρκιανόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · Roman Martyrology · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anthony the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (844)pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia, Confessor and Fool-for-Christ (1995)3rm.info · monkgabriel.ge
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorin and Priest Basil Luzgin, of Glazomicha (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Ananias Aristov of Perm, and Constantine Organov, Priests (1918)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Justus of Trieste, sentenced to death by drowning (293)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias, in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop of Pettau in Styria in Austria and the earliest exegete in the West (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Erc of Slane, Bishop of Slane, Ireland (512)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ambrose, abbot of the monastery of St. Moritz in Agaunum in Switzerland (532 or 582)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint George of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul (c. 699)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Baya (Bava) and Maura, Anchoresses in Scotland; St Bava guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent (c. 10th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amicus, born near Camerino in Italy, he became a priest, then a hermit and finally a monk at St Peter's in Fonte Avellana (c. 1045)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Icon of God of Shuya-Smolensk (Shuyskaya-Smolenskaya) (1654–1655)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.