Orthodox calendar: November 3 is the day of remembrance of the Hieromartyr Arkady, Bishop of Yekaterinburgtranslated

23rd Week after Pentecost.

Today, November 3, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Hilarion the Great (371-372); transfer of the relics of St. Hilarion, bishop Meglinsky (1206); mchch. Dasia, Gaia and Zotika (303); St. Hilarion, schema-monk of Pechersk (XI); prpp. Theophilus and Jacob of Omuch (c. 1412); St. Hilarion of Pskovozersky, Gdovsky (1476); sschmchch. Pavlina, Archbishop Mogilevsky, Arkady, bishop. Ekaterinburg, and with them Anatoly and Nikandra presbyters and martyr. Cypriana (1937); sschmch. Damiana, Archbishop Kursky (1937); sschmchch. Constantine, Sergius, Vasily, Theodore, Vladimir, Nicholas, John, Vasily, Alexander, Demetrius and Alexy presbyters, Sergius and John deacons, martyr. Sophronia and Neophyte (1937); prmts. Pelagia (1944).

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Hieromartyr Arkady (in the world - Alexander Pavlovich Ershov) was born on August 28, 1878 in the city of Kungur, Perm province, into the family of a priest. In 1901 he graduated from the Perm Theological Seminary, then studied at the Warsaw and St. Petersburg Imperial Universities. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1902 and served in various parishes of his native Perm diocese. From 1915 to 1917 he served as a priest in the 75th Infantry...