23 November
31 commemorations of 23 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 6 December of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Alexander NevskySt. Amphilochius of Iconium (c. 340-394)
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Templeoca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints
- Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius (251)Ἡ Ἁγία Μερόπη (ἢ Μυρώπη)synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Sisinius the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (c. 325)Ὁ Ὅσιος Σισίνιος ὁ Ὁμολογητήςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ischyrion, Bishop in Egypt and hermit of SceteὉ Ὅσιος Ἰσχυρίων ὁ Ἐπίσκοποςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Elenos (Helenus), Bishop of TarsusὉ Ὅσιος Ἐλένος Ἐπίσκοπος Ταρσοῦsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyr Theodore of Antioch (after 363)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium (394)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀμφιλόχιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἰκονίουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum, Sicily (690)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀκραγαντίνωνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122)pravoslavie.ru
- Burial of Saint Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), Grand Prince of Novgorod (1263)pravenc.ru · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dionysius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, "the Wise" (1492)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Metrophanes (Mitrophan, Mitrofan) (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh (1703)oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anthony of Iezeru-Vilcea, Romania (1714)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Thievart, Hieromonk of Moscow (1931)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John Vasiliev, Confessor (1932)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Boris Voskoboinikov, Bishop of Ivanovo (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Eleazar Spyridonov of Eupatoria, Priest, first rector of the Greek Church of St. Elijah (Yevpatoria) in Crimea (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Alexander Uksusov of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieomartyr Archimandrite Gregory (Grigol) Peradze of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Felicity, a widow martyred with her sons either in Rome or else in North Africa under Decius, buried in Rome (c. 165)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin-martyr Lucretia, in Mérida in the west of Spain (306)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paternian, Bishop of Fano in Italy (c. 343)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Clement, first Bishop of Metz in the east of Franceorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paulinus of Wales (Polin, Pewlin, Paulhen), an Abbot in Wales and disciple of St Illtyd, founder of the monastery of Whitland (c. 505)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Columbanus (Columban), Irish missionary and founder of Luxeuil Abbey and Bobbio Abbey (615)saint.gr · orthochristian.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wilfetrudis, second Abbess of Nivelles in Belgium, founded by her aunt St Gertrude (c. 670)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Trudo (Trudon, Tron, Trond, Truyen, Trudjen), Abbot, of Zirkingen (c. 695)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Rachildis, an anchoress who lived near the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland (c. 946)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adalbert, a monk at Cassoria in the Abruzzi in Italy, founder of the monastery of St Nicholas on Mt Caramanico near Chieti (c. 1045)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Guy of Casauria, a monk at Farfa who became Abbot of Casauria Abbey near Chieti in Italy (1045)orthodoxengland.org.uk
The list is November 23 (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.