November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 6 by Old Calendarists
November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Nov. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 23All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 5 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Apostles of the 70 Philemon and Archippus, Martyr Apphia, wife of Philemon and Equal to the Apostles, and St...
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November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Nov. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 25All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 7 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria [Russian usage]*Saint Mastridia of Alexandria...
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 6 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...
Saints
- Hierarch Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium (after 394394Year 394 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flavianus without colleague...
) - Hierarch Gregory, bishop of Agrigentum (680680Year 680 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 680 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.- Europe :* The Bulgars subjugate the country of...
) - St. Sisinius the confessorConfessor-Confessor of the Faith:Its oldest use is to indicate a saint who has suffered persecution and torture for the faith, but not to the point of death. The term is still used in this way in the East. In Latin Christianity it has come to signify any saint, as well as those who have been declared...
, bishop of Cyzicus (ca. 325325Year 325 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Paulinus...
) - MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Theodore of AntiochAntiochAntioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the...
(4th century) - Saint Alexander NevskyAlexander NevskyAlexander Nevsky was the Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the city's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Rus, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military...
(in schema Alexis) Grand PrinceGrand PrinceThe title grand prince or great prince ranked in honour below emperor and tsar and above a sovereign prince .Grand duke is the usual and established, though not literal, translation of these terms in English and Romance languages, which do not normally use separate words for a "prince" who reigns...
of Novgorod (1263) - Hierarch Dionysius IPatriarch Dionysius I of ConstantinopleDionysius I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople two times, from 1466 to 1471 and from 1488 to 1490. He is honoured as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and his feast day is November 23.-Life:Dionysius was born in Dimitsana, in the Peloponnese...
, patriarch of ConstantinoplePatriarch of ConstantinopleThe Ecumenical Patriarch is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome – ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
(15th century) - Hierarch Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), bishop of Voronezh (1703)
- Kostanti-KakhayKostanti-KakhayKostanti-Kakhay, Kostanti-Kaxay , or Kostanti Kakhi was a Christian Georgian nobleman from Kartli, who was seized captive by the Abbasid general Bugha al-Kabir during his 853 expedition into the Caucasus. He was subsequently put to death, at the age of 85, for refusing to convert to Islam...
(Georgian Orthodox Church)