Nov. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 8
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All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 20 by Old Calendarists
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.