17 November
26 commemorations of 17 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 30 November of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Gregory the Wonderworker (c. 210-270)
Saints
- Saint Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ Νεοκαισαρείαςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Hamah (282)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Zachariah (Zacharias) the Cobbler and his wife, Mary (3rd century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ζαχαρίας καὶ Ἰωάννηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Gregory, Victor, and Geminus of Heracleon in Thrace (304)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- 150 philosophers converted by St. Catherine, and who suffered in Alexandria (305)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Longinus of Egypt (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λογγῖνοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Sak (Saktus, Sanctus) the PersianὉ Ἅγιος Σὰκ ὁ Πέρσηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Maximus (Maximian), Archbishop of Constantinople (434)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γεννάδιος καὶ Μάξιμος Πατριάρχες Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint John the Cobbler of Olumba, Cairo, and Sinai (7th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (857)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λάζαρος ὁ Ζωγράφοςsynaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia (914)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable John of Olympus (John Dermokaitis), in Bithynia (c. 919–944)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Δερμοκαΐτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable JustinὉ Ὅσιος Ἰουστῖνοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Gennadius, Abbot of Vatopedi, Mount Athos (14th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεννάδιος ὁ Βατοπαιδινὸςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nikon, Abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1426)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νίκων ὁ Θαυματουργός μαθητὴς τοῦ Ἁγίου Σεργίου (Ρῶσος, † 1427 μ.Χ.)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maximus III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1482)
- Venerable Archimandrite Sevastijan Dabović (Sebastian Dabovich) of San Francisco and Jackson, Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1940)istocnik.ca · pravoslavie.ru · spc.rs
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.
- Martyrs Acisclus and Victoria, at Córdoba in Hispania (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eugene, a deacon of the Church of Florence with Bishop Zenobius (422)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Anianus of Orleans (Aignan), fifth Bishop of Orleans in France (453)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gregory of Tours, Bishop of Tours (594), and with him Venerable Aredius, Abbot of Limoges and Venerable Vulfolaic, stylite of Trier, Gaulholytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Namasius (Naamat, Namat, Namatius), twenty-second Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 599)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Hilda, Abbess of Whitby Abbey (680)Ἡ Ἁγία Hilda (Βρεταννίδα)synaxarion.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
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 relics (1935) of St. Gregory, Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150), to Lesvos
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Daniel (Sandu Tudor), poet of Romania (1962)
The list is November 17 (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.