November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 29 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 1

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 13 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 30, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 17.

Saints

• Holy and All-Praised Apostle Andrew the First-Called (62)
• Saint Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (380)
• Saint Alexander, first Bishop of Methymna on Lesbos, Wonderworker, and member of the First Ecumenical Council (fl. 325)
• Saint Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Georgia (502)
• Saints Peter I and Samuel I, Catholicoi of Georgia (6th centuries)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Castulus and Euprepis, martyrs in Rome
• Saint Constantius, a priest in Rome who opposed the Pelagians and at whose hands he suffered a great deal (5th century)
• Saint Trojanus of Saintes (Troyen), a priest in Saintes in France where he later became bishop after St Vivien (533)
• Saint Tudwal (Tugdual), monk from Wales who became Bishop of Tréguier, Brittany (c. 564)<small>(see also: December 1)</small>

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Andrew (Andrei) Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania (1873)
• Saint Elias, Schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900)
• Venerable Archimandrite Sevastijan Dabović (Sebastian Dabovich) of San Francisco and Jackson, Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1940) <small>(see also: November 17)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Chestnov, Priest (1937)

Other commemorations

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

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Notes

References

Sources

• November 30 / December 13. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• December 13 / November 30. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• November 30. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 89.
• The Thirtieth Day of the Month of November. Orthodoxy in China.
• November 30. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• . Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 369.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 572-574.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 30 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 30 ΝοεμβρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 13 декабря (30 ноября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 30 ноября (ст.ст.) 13 декабря 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
• 30 ноября по старому стилю / 13 декабря по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2018 год.