8 November
22 commemorations of 8 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Synaxis of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Salaphiel, Jegudiel, Barachiel, Jeremiel and the Other Bodiless PowersΣύναξις Ἀρχαγγέλων Μιχαὴλ καὶ Γαβριὴλ καὶ πασῶν τῶν Ἀσωμάτων καὶ Οὐράνιων Δυνάμεωνorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Righteous Maria (Martha in monasticism), Princess of Pskov (1300)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Michael the Blessed, of Chernigov (1922)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Paul Ansimov, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Alexis (Zadvornov), Hieromonk of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
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.
- The Four Crowned Martyrs (c. 305)
- Secundus, Severian, Carpophorus and Victorinus; or:
- Claudius, Nicostratus, Symphorian, Castorius and Simplicius
- Saint Maurus, second Bishop of Verdun, Confessor (383)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clarus of Marmoutier, a monk at the monastery of Marmoutier with St Martin; he was ordained priest and then lived as a hermit near the monastery (389)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cybi (Cuby), Cornish bishop and, briefly king, who worked largely in North Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Deusdedit (Adeodatus I), Pope of Rome (618)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tysilio (Tyssel, Tyssilo, Suliau), Prince of Powys, Abbot of Meifod, Wales (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Willehad, Bishop of Bremen, Confessor (789)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Wiomad (Weomadus, Wermad), a monk at St Maximinus in Trier in Germany, he became Abbot of Mettlach and finally Bishop of Trier (790)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Moroc, Abbot of Dunkeld and afterwards Bishop of Dunblane in Scotland (9th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gregory of Einsiedeln, Abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey (c. 945 or 996)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gervadius (Gernard, Garnet), born in Ireland, he went to Moray and became a hermit near Elgin in Scotland (10th century)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.
- Repose of Nun Barbara of Birsk (1903)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Photius of Valaam Monastery (1942)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Olga Michael of Alaska, Matushka (1979)saint.gr
- Repose of Metropolitan Philaret Voznesensky of New York (1985)saint.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis), of the Holy Monastery of Venerable David, in Euboea (1991)johnsanidopoulos.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Priest George Calciu of Romania and Alexandria, Virginia (2006)pravoslavie.ru
The list is November 8 (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.