April 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Apr. 5 — Eastern Orthodox Church calendar — Apr. 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Apr. 19 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople
• Saint Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, enlightener of the Slavs
• 120 martyrs of Persia
• Saint Platonida (Placonis) of Nisibis
• Martyr Jeremiah and martyr Archilias the Presbyter
• Saint Gregory of St. Athanasius' Monastery on Mount Athos, instructor of Saint Gregory Palamas
• Saint Gregory the Sinaite

Other Commemorations

• Repose of Elder Mardarius of Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859)
• Repose of Optina Elder Sebastian of Karaganda, Schema-archimandrite (1966)