Nov. 6

November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Nov. 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 7-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 19 by Old Calendarists-Saints:* Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople Nov. 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 7-Fixed commemorations:All fixed...

 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 8

November 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Nov. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 9-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 21 by Old Calendarists-Saints:...

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 20 by Old Calendarists

Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...

Saints

• St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt. Galesius near Ephesus
  Ephesus
  Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...
  
   (1054)
• Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and forty children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra (363)
• Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh)
  Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh)
  Metropolitan Joseph - secular name is Petrovykh Ivan Semionovitch born in the Novgorod province in the area of Tikhvin city of Ustyuzhna. Hieromartyr....
  
   1937

The Russian Church Abroad

On November 7, 1920, Patriarch Tikhon issued an encyclical ordering that the millions of Russian diaspora

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 that had fled the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917...

 organize a church authority outside of Soviet control. The Russian Orthodox Church

Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...

 was in 1920 organized under the communist Soviets.