21 November
18 commemorations of 21 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 December of the civil calendar.
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Yaropolk-Peter, Prince of Vladimir in Volhynia (11th century)
- Venerable Sozomenos, Bishop of Karpaseia in Cyprus, and Wonderworker (12th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σωζόμενοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
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 Rufus of Rome, the disciple whom Saint Paul greets in Romans 16:13 (c. 90)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Celsus and Clement, in Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Demetrius and Honorius, in Ostia in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Honorius, Eutychius and Stephen, in Asta in Andalusia in Spain under Diocletian (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gelasius I, Pope of Rome (496)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Digain, son of Constantine Corneu, King of Dumnonia (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maurus of Verona, twelfth Bishop of Verona, Confessor (c. 600)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Columbanus of Bobbio, Abbot and founder of Luxeuil Abbey in Gaul, and Bobbio Abbey in Italy (615)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Amelberga of Susteren, Benedictine Abbess of Susteren Abbey in the Netherlands (c. 900)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hilary, Benedictine Abbot of San Vincenzo in Volturno (1011–1045), who revived the monastic life there (c. 1045)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.
- Synaxis of churches that are dedicated to the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokossaint.gr
- "Everlasting Hope" and "Eikonistria" (Swinging one) Icons of the Mother of Godholytrinityorthodox.com · johnsanidopoulos.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Glorification of the New Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Priest of New York and Protopresbyter of Moscow, Missionary of America, Hieromartyr of the... (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Pasha of Birsk, Fool-for-Christ (1891)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of New Hieromartyr Alexis Benemansky of Tver, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Metropolitan Philaret Voznesensky of New York (1985)
The list is November 21 (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.