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Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 20 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt. Galesius near Ephesus (1054)
- Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and forty children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra (363)
- Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh) 1937
Other commemorations
The Russian Church Abroad
On November 7, 1920, Patriarch Tikhon issued an encyclical ordering that the millions of Russian diaspora that had fled the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution organize a church authority outside of Soviet control. The Russian Orthodox Church was in 1920 organized under the communist Soviets.
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