25 November
27 commemorations of 25 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 8 December of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Catherine of Alexandria
Feasts
- Apodosis of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Templeorthochristian.com · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Hieromartyr Clement I, Pope of Rome (101)oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μερκούριος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)Ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Holy 150 Orators, martyred by fire, with Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι 150 Ρήτορεςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, by beheading, Porphyrius Stratelates and 200 soldiers at Alexandria, by the sword (305)Ἡ Ἁγία Βασίλισσαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy 670 Martyrs, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι 670 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Peter the Silent (the Hesychast), of Galatia and Antioch (c. 403 or 429)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἡσυχαστὴςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Clement of Ohrid (Achrida), Bishop of Greater Macedonia, Enlightener of Bulgaria and Wonderworker (916)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- Martyr Magdalena Zabelina (1931)calendar.rop.ru
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Ostroumov, Archbishop of Smolensk (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Yaroslav Savitsky, Protopresbyter of Moscow (1937)azbyka.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Hilarion Soloviev and Simeon Afonkin, Priests, of Alma Ata (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr John Vladimirsky of Tver (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Cosmas Korotkikh of Moscow (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Gregory Voinov, Basil Pariysky, John Tarasov, Alexander Vershinsky, John Janushev, Victor Smirnov, Andrew Shershnev, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Varlaam Popov (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru
- Martyr Paul Kuzovkov (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyr Nicholas Kopninsky (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
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.
- Hieromartyr Moses, a priest in Rome, noted for his zeal in preaching the Gospel and his firm stand against Novatianism, martyred under Decius (251)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Jucunda, a holy virgin in Reggio in Aemilia in Italy and a spiritual daughter of St Prosper, Bishop of that city (466)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alanus, Abbot and founder of Lavaur in Gascony in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Imma (Immina), born in Würzburg, she became abbess of a convent in Karlburg in Germany (c. 752)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bernold, monk-priest of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria in Germany, renowned as a wonderworker (c. 1050)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 priest Pavel Florensky of Sergiev Posad (1937)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Protopriest Rostislav Gan in Australia (1975)pravoslavie.ru · russianorthodoxchurch.ws
The list is November 25 (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.