16 September
27 commemorations of 16 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 29 September of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Crossocafs.oca.org
Saints
- Saint Sebastiana, disciple of Apostle Paul, martyred at Heraclea (86)orthochristian.com · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Melissa of Marcianopolis, Roman missionary born in Gijon, Spain, virgin and martyr (c. 126-157)Ἡ Ἁγία Μελιτίνη ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised, of Chalcedon (304)Ἡ Ἁγία Εὐφημία ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Victor and Sosthenes at Chalcedon (c. 304)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Dorotheus, hermit of Egypt (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Δωρόθεος ὁ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ὁ Ἐρημίτης († 4ος αἰ.)synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyrs Isaac and Joseph, at Karnu, Georgia (808)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Ludmilla, grandmother of St. Wenceslaus, Prince of the Czechs (927)Ἡ Ἁγία Λουντμίλαsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Kassianos of Glyfia near Alektora, in Cyprus, asceticsaint.gr
- Saint Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, Wonderworker (1406)Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυπριανὸς Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου, Ρῶσος († 1406)pravenc.ru · synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Kuksha (Velichko) of Odessa, Hiero-Schemamonk of Odessa (1964)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Gregory (Raevskii) of Tver, Priest (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Losev, Priest (1942)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Confessor Sofian (Boghiu) of Antim (2002)basilica.ro · orthochristian.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 Cornelius, Pope of Rome (253)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (258)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Lucy and Geminian, a widow and a neophyte martyred together in Rome under Diocletian (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Abundius and Abundantius, and John and Marcianus, in Rome (c. 304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ninian, Bishop of Whithorn (Candida Casa), Apostle to the Southern Picts (c. 432)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νινιάν (Βρετανός)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Curcodomus, successor of St Humbert as Abbot of Maroilles Abbey near Cambrai in France (c. 680)catholic.org
- Virgin-martyr Dulcissima, venerated from time immemorial in Sutri in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eugenia, Abbess of Hohenburg Abbey (735)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Rogelius and Servus-Dei, a monk and his young disciple martyred in Cordoba in Spain for publicly denouncing Islam (852)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Edith of Wilton, Nun, of Wilton Abbey (984)Ἡ Ἁγία Edithac (Ἀγγλίδα)synaxarion.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Stephen of Perugia, third Abbot of St Peter in Perugia in Italy (1026)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.
- Icon of the Mother of God Support of Humble, near Pskov (1420)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Translation of the relics (2001) of St. Alexis Mechev of Moscow (1923)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
The list is September 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.