16 February
19 commemorations of 16 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 29 February of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyrs Pamphilus of Caesarea, Priest, and 11 companions, at Caesarea in Palaestina (c. 307-309)
- Valens, Deacon, and Martyrs Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel
- Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis, Bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis (422), and the Martyrs of Persia (4th century), whose relics rest in MartyropolisὉ Ὅσιος Μαρουθᾶς ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος καὶ οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες ἐν Περσίᾳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Flavian I of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (404)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (449)Ὁ Ἅγιος Φλαβιανὸς Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Flavian the Hermit, monastic and WonderworkerὉ Ὅσιος Φλαβιανόςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace (9th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- New Monk-martyr Romanus of Karpenision and Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos, at Constantinople (1694)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ρωμανὸς ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow, Apostle to the Altai (1926)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles (1912)oca.org
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter Lagov, Priest (1931)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow (1934)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Paul, 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.
- Saint Onesimus, of the Seventy Apostles (c. 68)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Honestus (Honestus of Nîmes), a disciple of Saturninus of Toulouse, who preached the Gospel in Spain (270)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Faustinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia and Confessor (381)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Tanco of Verden, Bishop of Verden (815)Ὁ Ἅγιος Τάνκο Ἐπίσκοπος Βέρντενsynaxarion.gr · bartleby.com
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Translation of the relics of Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia (304)
- Synaxis of the 'Cypriot' Icon of the TheotokosΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Κύπρῳsynaxarion.gr
The list is February 16 (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.