December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 7
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 23.
Saints
- Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch
- Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
- Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of Saint Nicholas of Myra
- Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea in Bithynia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Asella
- Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missionaries with Saint Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland
- Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric
- Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye near Douai, in north France
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna
- New Hieromartyr Michael Uspensky, Priest of Moscow
- New Hieromartyrs/Hieroconfessors Nicholas, Priest of Tobolsk, Nicholas, Missionary of Moscow, and Nicholas, Priest of Novo-Nikolskaya
- New Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia, Archimandrite
Other commemorations
- The miraculous apparition of Saint Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council
- Divine warning of an impending earthquake in Constantinople
- Icon of Our Lady of Tambov Seafaring Icon of the Mother of God
- The Wonderworking icon of Saint Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev
- Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II