PhilokaliaKnowledge Map

17 January

27 commemorations of 17 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 30 January of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Anthony the Great (c. 251-356)

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker of Beroea (Beroia, Veria), Macedonia, Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νέος ὁ Θαυματουργὸςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Anthony, Founder of Dymsk Monastery, Novgorod (1224)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (1232)drevo-info.ru
  • Saint Anthony, Founder of Krasny Kholm Monastery, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast (1481)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Κρασνοχόλμκιζsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος Καντακουζηνόςsynaxarion.gr
  • Venerable Anthony, Founder of Chernoezersk (Chernoezero, Chermoezersk) (Black Lake) Monastery, Novgorod (16th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Τσερνοεζέρσκιζoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Φιλόθεοςsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Macarius Kalogeras, Hierodeacon of Patmos (1737)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Herman Gomzin, Schema-abbot of Zosima Hermitage (1923)pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐξ Ἰωαννίνωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Victor Evropeytsev, Priest (1931)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Paul Uspensky, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com

Saints of the West before the Schism

Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.

  • Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St. Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of Saint Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sulpicius II (Sulpitius II) the Pious (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (644, 646, or 647)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Mildgyth of Minster-in-Thanet, a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent (c. 676)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Richimirus, under the patronage of the Bishop of Le Mans, he founded the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Joseph of Verona, Bishop of Freising (764)orthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Repose of Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Βολογκντὰ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr
  • Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon Bogoslovtsev of Inkerman (1950)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Bishop Sava Saračević of Edmonton (1973)pravoslavie.ru

The list is January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.

Saints A to Z Today in the Church