November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 17

All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 16, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 3.

Saints

 * Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew (60)
 * Saint Fulvianus (in holy baptism Matthew), prince of Ethiopia, (1st century)
 * Virgin-martyr Ephigenia of Ethiopia (Iphigenia of Ethiopia) (1st century).
 * Hieromartyr Hypatius of Gangra, Bishop of Gangra, Wonderworker (326) (see also: March 31)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Fidentius Armenus, an early saint in Padua in Italy (2nd century)
 * Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, Eustochius and Companions (362)  (see also: November 15)
 * Saint Eucherius of Lyons (449)
 * Saints Rufinus, Mark, Valerius and Companions, martyrs in North Africa.
 * Saint Afan, a bishop who gave his name to the church of Llanafan in Powys in Wales (6th century)
 * Saint Africus, Bishop of Comminges in France, celebrated for his zeal for Orthodoxy (7th century)
 * Saint Gobrain, a monk who became Bishop of Vannes in Brittany and at the age of eighty-seven went to live as a hermit (725)
 * Saint Otmar, abbot and monastic founder in Switzerland (759)
 * Saint Lubuinus, missionary to Friesland (773)
 * Saint Ælfric of Abingdon (Aelfric), monk and Abbot of Abingdon, later Bishop of Wilton and twenty-ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in 995 (1005)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Sergius, Priest and missionary, of Malopinega, Vologda (1585)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Theodore Kolierov, Priest, and with him Martyrs Ananius Boikov and Michael Boldakov (1929)
 * New Hieromartyrs Michael Abramov, Protopresbyter, and priests Basil Sokolov, Victor Voronov, John Tsvetkov, Makarius Soloviev and Nicholas Troitsky (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Panteleimon (Arzhanykh), Abbot of Optina Monastery (1937)
 * Martyr Demetrius Spiridonov (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Philoumenos (Hasapis) of Jacob's Well (1979)    (see also: November 29)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Schemamonk John the Fingerless (1843), disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky.