6 November
37 commemorations of 6 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 19 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Virgin-martyr Manathooca.org
- Virgin-martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, Julia, Euphrasia, Faina, and Athanasia, of Ancyra (303)orthochristian.com · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Nikander, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Νίκανδρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (c. 350)Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Ὁμολογητής καὶ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Luke of Tauromenium, monk, of Sicily (820)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λουκᾶςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Demetrianus, Bishop of Cytheria on Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 915)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημητριανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Κηθηρίας Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Paul of Corinth, Fool-for-ChristὉ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, founder of Khutyn Monastery, Novgorod (1192)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρλαὰμ ὁ ἐν Χουτινῇ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς ὁ ἐν Σπηλαίῳsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Barlaam of Keret, Karelia (16th century)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Agapios the Presbyter (Asimakis Leonardos) (1812)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀγάπιος ὁ Πρεσβύτεροςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Elias Fondaminsky of Paris (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Delektorsky), Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsk (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Barlaam (Nikolsky), Abbot, of Andreyevskoe, Moscow (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Vladimirov), Hieromonk of the St. Michael Skovorodsky Monastery, Novgorod (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gur), Hieromonk, of Lytkarino, Moscow (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Anatoly Berzhitsky, Arsenius Troitsky, Nicholas Dvoretsky, Nicholas Protasov, Constantine Lyubomydrov, Priests (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs of the Kamensk Diocese (1937)
- Vasily Vakhnin, Joseph Chekhranov, and Theodore Romanovsky, priests
- Virgin-martyrs Nina (Shuvalova), and Seraphima (Gorshkova), nuns (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Basil Krylov, Priest (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Sarov
- Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac, and Rufinus (1938)
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 of Thynissa, a martyr who suffered in Thynissa near Hippo (Bone) in North Africaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Illtyd (Illtut), abbot, of Llanilltyd Fawr, Wales (505)Ὁ Ἅγιος Iltud (Οὐαλός)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Leonard of Noblac, Gaul (c. 559)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Leonianus, a hermit near Autun (c. 570)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Felix, a monk at a monastery in Fondi in the south of Italy (6th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severus, Bishop of Barcelona in Spain (633)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Edwen, she is the patroness saint of Llanedwen in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Efflamm, born in Britain, he went to Brittany where he became abbot of a monastery he had founded (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Winnoc, Abbot, of Flanders (716)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cowey of Portaferry, Abbot, of Moville Monastery (8th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Erlafrid, founder of Hirsau Abbey in Germany, where he became a monk (c. 830)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Stephen of Apt, Bishop of Apt in the south of France in 1010 (1046)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.
- Commemoration of the falling of ash from the sky in Constantinople, during the reign of the Emperor Leo the Great and Patriarch Gennadius (472)johnsanidopoulos.com · orthodox.net
- Commemoration of the Sarov Elders
- Abbot Pachomius (1794); Hieroschemamonk Joseph (1785); Hieromonks Pitirim (1789) and Matthew (1795); and Monk Joachim (1802)
The list is November 6 (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.