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Today's feasts November 6 2024: Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople; Saint Barlaam, Abbot of Chutin (Novgorod); Saint Luke, monk of Sicily; Martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, and Athanasia of Ancyra; Saint Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves; Saint Barlaam of Keret Lake; New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer; Monk-martyr Nicander; Saint Paul, Fool-for-Christ; Saint Herman (Germanus), Archbishop of Kazan; Saint Winnoc, Abbot of St. Omer; Saint Illtud, Abbot of Llantwit Major; Saint Leontius the Great; Saint Abraham of Chotine; Saint Melaine, Bishop of Rennes; synaxis of New-Martyrs of Sarov: Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac, and Rufinus; commemoration of the Sarov Monastery Elders: Pachomius, Pitirim, Matthew, Joseph, and Joachim ( October 24 2024: Julian Calendar ) Martyr Arethas (al-Haarith) and over 4,000 with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters; Blessed Elesbaan (Caleb), king of Ethiopia; Saint Athanasius, Patriarch of Constantinople; Saint Arethas, Sisoes, and Theophilus the Silent, recluses of the Kiev Caves; Saint Senoch, Abbot of Tours (Gaul); New-Martyr Bishop Lawrence of Balakin; Saint John the Hermit of Pskov; Martyr Sebastian; Saint Maglorios, Abbot of Sark; Saints Mark, Soterikos, and Valentinos; Saints Akakios the presbyter and Nerdon; Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Joy of All Who Sorrow;" repose of Blessed Elder Zosimas (Verkhovsky) Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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