5 November
29 commemorations of 5 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 18 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Apostles Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, and Philologus, of the Seventy (1st century)orthochristian.com · ecclesia.gr · ecclesiagreece.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Galacteon and his wife Episteme at Emesa (253)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γαλακτίων καὶ Ἐπιστήμηsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Domninus, Timothy, Theophilus, Theotimus, Dorotheus, Eupsychius, Carterius, Silvanus, Pamphilius, Philotheos, Nearchos and other martyrs of Palestine (307)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δομνῖνος, Τιμόθεος, Θεόφιλος, Θεότιμος, Δωρόθεος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος, Εὐψύχιος, Καρτέριος, Σιλβάνος, Πάμφιλος, Φιλόθεος, Νέαρχος καὶ ἄλλοι Ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Castor the Bishop, by fire, and Martyr Agathangelus, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Κάστορας καὶ Ἀγαθάγγελος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Domentius and Paul the BishopΟἱ Ἅγιοι Δομέντιος καὶ Παῦλος ὁ Ἐπίσκοποςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Gregory, Patriarch of Alexandria, Confessor (9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod (1470)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωνᾶς ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hilarion, Recluse, of Troekurovo (1853)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dositheus, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1874)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Gabriel Maslennikov, Priest of Ryazan (1937)pravenc.ru · 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 Felix and Eusebius, martyrs in Terracina, between Rome and Naples in Italy (1st century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Domninus, first Bishop of Grenoble in France (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Dominator, fourteenth Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy in Italy (c. 495)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fibitius, Abbot of a monastery in Trier in Germany, and the twenty-first bishop of that city (c. 500)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Magnus, Archbishop of Milan in Italy from 520 to 525, Confessororthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Laetus, a monk at the age of twelve, he is honoured near Orleans in France, his relics enshrined in the village of Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt (533)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cybi (Kybi, Kebius, Cuby), Abbot, of Cornwall and Wales (550)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hermenegild, a monk at Salcedo in Galicia in Spain (586)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Augustine and Paulinus, monks sent by St Benedict to found the monastery of Terracina in Italy (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Kea (Kay, Kenan), Bishop of Devon and Cornwall (6th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Bertilla (Berthild of Chelles), a nun at Jouarre near Meaux in France, who became Abbess of Chelles Abbey (c. 705)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Spinulus (Spinula, Spin), a monk at Moyenmoutier with St Hidulf, later founder of the monastery of Bégon-Celle (now Saint-Blasien) (707 or 720)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Kanten (Cannen), founder of Lianganten in Powys in Wales (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Odrada, Virgin, of Balen, Netherlands (8th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory, a monk at Cassano, Calabria (1002)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Consecration of the Church of Theodore Tyron, in the "Sforakio" district of ConstantinopleἘγκαίνια ναοῦ Θεοδώρου Τήρωνος ἐν τοῖς Σφωρακίουsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Election to the patriarchal throne of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (1917)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Abbess Anna of Vraćevšnica monastery, Serbia (1975)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Hieromonk Raphael (Ogorodnikov) of Porkhov, Pskov (1988)pravoslavie.ru
The list is November 5 (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.