November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
November 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 21
All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For November 20, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 7.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Saints
- Martyr Dasius of Dorostolum, Romania
- Martyrs Eustathios the Deacon, Thespesios, and Anatolios, of Nicaea
- Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II :
- Martyrs Bassus and 42 companions in Heraclea in Thrace.
- Saint Isaac, Catholicos of Armenia Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople Venerable Gregory Decapolites
- Venerable Theoctistus (Theoktistos) the Confessor, Patrician
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, patron-saints of Turin in Italy where they were martyred
- Martyrs Ampelus and Gaius, in Messina in Sicily under Diocletian
- Saint Maxentia, born in Ireland, she settled as an anchoress near Senlis in France, where she was put to death at the place now called Pont-Sainte-Maxence
- Saint Benignus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan
- Saint Silvester, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in France
- Saint Simplicius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy
- Saint Eval, a Bishop in Cornwall
- Saint Autbodus, born in Ireland, he preached in Artois, Hainault and Picardy in the north of France and Belgium
- Saint Eudo, a monk at Lérins Abbey in France, he founded the monastery of Corméry-en-Velay, later called Saint-Chaffre
- Saint Hippolyte of Belley, Bishop of Belley, then hermit in Saint-Claude in Franche-Comté Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia
- Saint Leo of Nonantula, monk and abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy
- Saint Bernward of Hildesheim, Bishop of Hildesheim in Germany
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Sozomen, Bishop of Karpaseia in Cyprus, and Wonderworker
- Venerable Diodorus, Founder and Igoumen of Yuriegorsk Monastery, Solovki
- Saint Parasceva, Abbess of Toplovsky Convent, Simferopol
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Macarius, Bishop of Dnepropetrovsk
- New Hieromartyrs Alexis Amanov, Alexander Sakharov, and Vladimir Medvediuk, John Zabolotny, Alexis Nikatov, Basil Kandelabrov, Nicholas Zelenov, John Sarva, Emilian Panasevich, Nicholas Pokrovsky, Priests
- New Hieromartyr Arsenius, abbot, of the Tikhvin Monastery
- New Hieromartyr Eutychius, abbot, of the St. Marcian Skete, Ukraine
- New Hieromartyr Hilarion, hieromonk of Glinsk Hermitage
- New Nun-martyr Ioannikia, Abbess of the Convent of the Entry of the Theotokos
- New Woman Hieromartyr Tatiana Fomicheva