3 November
43 commemorations of 3 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 16 November of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. George the Great Martyr (c. 275-303)
Saints
- Martyrs Dassios, Severus, Andronas, Theodotus and Theodoti, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Δάσιος, Σέβηρος, Ἄνδρωνας, Θεόδοτος καὶ Θεοδότη οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyrs Atticus, Agapius, Eudoxius, Carterius, Istucarius (Styrax), Pactobius (Tobias), Nictopolion, and companions, at Sebaste (320)orthochristian.com · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy 9 Martyrs, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐννέα Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- The Holy 28 Martyrs, by fireΟἱ Ἅγιοι 28 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Hieromartyrs Acepsimas of Hnaita, Bishop (376), Joseph the Presbyter (377), and Aeithalas the Deacon (377), of PersiaΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀκεψιμᾶς, Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Ἀειθαλᾶςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Snandulia of Persia (380)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Achaemonides (or Hormisdas), Confessor, of Persia (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀχαιμενίδηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Acepsimas, hermit, of Cyrrhus in Syria (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀκεψιμᾶςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Elias of EgyptὉ Ὅσιος Ἠλίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Theodore the Confessor, Bishop of Ancyra (8th-9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀγκύραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Anna Vsevolodovna of Kiev, Princess, daughter of Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (1112)saint.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicholas of Iveron (Mt. Athos) and Georgia, hymnographer (1308)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr George, priest, of Neopolis, Asia Minor (1797)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ νέος Ἱερομάρτυρας, ὁ Νεαπολίτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Dinariev, Presbyter (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru
- New Martyr Paul Parfenov (1918)calendar.rop.ru
- New Hieromartyrs (1937)
- Basil Archangelsky; Peter Orlenkov; Basil Pokrovsky; Alexander Zverev; Vladimir Pisarev; Sergius Kedrov; Nicholas Pyatnitsky; Vicentius Smirnov; John Kesarisky; Peter Kosmenkov; Alexander Parusnikov; Paul Andreev; and Cosmas Petrychenko, Priests
- Simeon Krechkov, Deacon
- New Martyr Evdokia Safronova (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Stanislavlev, Deacon (1942)calendar.rop.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 Papulus (Papoul), a priest who worked with St Saturninus in France and like him was martyred under Diocletian (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- The Innumerable Martyrs of Saragossa (304)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Valentine and Hilary, a priest and his deacon, beheaded at Viterbo near Rome under Diocletian (c. 304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Florus of Lodève (Flour), first Bishop of Lodève in Languedoc in France (389)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Valentinian, Bishop of Salerno in the south of Italy (c. 500)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gwenhael, born in Brittany, he became a monk at Landévennec Abbey with St Winwalöe, where he later became abbot (c. 550)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sylvia, the mother of St Gregory the Great (c. 572)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gaudiosus of Tarazona, a monk in Asan in the Pyrenees in Spain under St Victorian, later the Bishop of Tarazona (c. 585)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clether (Clydawg, Cledog, Clodock), a hermit in Herefordshire (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Elerius, Abbot of a monastery in North Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Winifred of Holywell (Winifred of Treffynon), Wales (630)Roman Martyrology · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Domnus of Vienne (Domnolus), Bishop of Vienne, Confessor (657)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rumwold of Buckingham (Rumwald of Brackley), infant Prince of Northumbria (662)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cristiolus, brother of St Sulian and founder of churches, including one in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Vulganius, a Celt who went to France and enlightened the Atrebati, finally living as a hermit in Arras (c. 704)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hubert, Bishop of Liege (727)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Pirmin, Bishop and monastic founder in Germany (753)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Wulgan, a holy man born in Canterbury in England, where his relics were later venerated (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Acheric and William, hermits at a monastery in the Vosges in France (c. 860)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Englatius (Englat, Tanglen), possibly a bishop, he lived in Tarves in Aberdeenshire in Scotland (966)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hermengaudius (Ermengol, Armengol), Bishop of Urgell in Spain (1035)Roman Martyrology · 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.
- Translation of the holy relics of the Holy Great Martyr George the Trophy-bearer, and Dedication of the Church of the Great-martyr George in Lydda (4th century)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Γεωργίου τοῦ Μεγαλομάρτυρα καὶ Τροπαιοφόρου καὶ ἐγκαίνια Ναοῦ του στὴν Λύδδα τῆς Ἰόππηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the holy relics (987) of St. Edith of Wilton, English nun (984)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Translation of the holy relics (1796) of the New Great-martyr Apostolos (1686) from Constantinople to Agios Lavrentios in Pelion, ThessalyΜετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Μεγαλομάρτυρα Ἀποστόλου τοῦ νέουsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Daniil (Tudor) of Romania (1962)pravoslavie.ru
The list is November 3 (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.