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30 November

14 commemorations of 30 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 13 December of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Andrew the First-Called

Saints

  • Holy and All-Praised Apostle Andrew the First-Called (62)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ Ἀπόστολος ὁ Πρωτόκλητοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · mospat.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (380)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φρουμέντιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀβησσυνίας (Αἰθιοπίας)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Alexander, first Bishop of Methymna on Lesbos, Wonderworker, and member of the First Ecumenical Council (fl. 325)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος Μηθύμνηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Georgia (502)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saints Peter I and Samuel I, Catholicoi of Georgia (6th centuries)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Andrew (Andrei) Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania (1873)pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Elias, Schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Archimandrite Sevastijan Dabović (Sebastian Dabovich) of San Francisco and Jackson, Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1940)oca.org · istocnik.ca · spc.rs

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Chestnov, Priest (1937)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.

  • Saints Castulus and Euprepis, martyrs in Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
  • Saint Constantius, a priest in Rome who opposed the Pelagians and at whose hands he suffered a great deal (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Trojanus of Saintes (Troyen), a priest in Saintes in France where he later became bishop after St Vivien (533)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Tudwal (Tugdual), monk from Wales who became Bishop of Tréguier, Brittany (c. 564)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.

  • Entrance of the Apostle Andrew into Georgia (1st century)oca.org

The list is November 30 (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.

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