28 November
24 commemorations of 28 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 11 December of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Acacius, Martyr Irenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εἰρήναρχοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · goarch.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs at Tiberiopolis (361-363)
- Timothy and Theodore, bishops
- Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore, and Nicephorus, presbyters
- Basil and Thomas, deacons
- Hierotheus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius, and Eusebius, monks
- Etymasius, layman
- Saint Theodore, Bishop of Theodosiopolis in Armenia (end of 6th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maurice, Emperor of Rome, and his six sons (602)johnsanidopoulos.com
- Venerable Monk-martyr and Confessor Stephen the New of Mt. St. Auxentius (767)Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ Ὁμολογητής ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Romanos, Bishop of MacedoniaὉ Ἅγιος Ῥωμανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Μακεδονίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Blessed Theodore III, Archbishop of Rostov (1394)oca.org · pravenc.ru · saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Christos the Gardener of Albania, at Constantinople (1748)orthochristian.com · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Chichagov, Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Alexis Veselovsky, Alexis Smirnov, and Basil Zavgorodnego, Priests (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Raphael Tyupin, Hieromonk of the Zlatoustov Monastery, Moscow (1937)calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Monkmartyr Vincent Nikolsky of Optina Monastery (1937)calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-Martyr Anysia Maslanovoy (1937)calendar.rop.ru
- Virgin-Martyr Paraskeva Fedorov (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Krylov, Priest (1941)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Confessor Hieromonk Arsenie (Boca) of Prislop (1989)basilica.ro · orthochristian.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.
- Saint Rufus and Companions, a citizen of Rome who was martyred with his entire household under Diocletian (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Papinianus and Mansuetus, Bishops in North Africa martyred under the Arian Vandal King Genseric (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Valerian, Urban, Crescens, Eustacius Cresconius, Crescentian, Felix, Hortulanus and Florentian, Bishops from North Africa exiled by the Arian King... (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fionnchu, the successor of St. Comgall at the monastery of Bangor in Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin-Martyr Juthwara of Cornwall (6th or 8th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Oda of Brabant, the Blind Princess of Scotland (c. 726)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hippolytus, Bishop of Saint-Claude in France (c. 775)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.
- Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)calendar.rop.ru
The list is November 28 (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.