16 November
22 commemorations of 16 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 29 November of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Matthew the Evangelist
Saints
- Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew (60)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ματθαῖος ὁ Ἀπόστολος καὶ Εὐαγγελιστήςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Fulvianus (Fulvian) (in holy baptism Matthew), prince of Ethiopia (1st century)pravenc.ru · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin-martyr Ephigenia of Ethiopia (Iphigenia of Ethiopia) (1st century)saint.gr · saintsmaryandmarthaorthodoxmonastery.org · ww1.antiochian.org
- Hieromartyr Hypatius of Gangra, Bishop of Gangra, Wonderworker (326)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Thomas II the New, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (668–669)ec-patr.org
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Sergius, Priest and missionary, of Malopinega, Vologda (1585)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Theodore Kolierov, Priest, and with him Martyrs Ananius Boikov and Michael Boldakov (1929)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Michael Abramov, Protopresbyter, and priests Basil Sokolov, Victor Voronov, John Tsvetkov, Makarius Soloviev and Nicholas Troitsky (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Panteleimon Arzhanykh, Abbot of Optina Monastery (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Demetrius Spiridonov (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Philoumenos (Hasapis) of Jacob's Well (1979)patriarchia.ru · saint.gr · calendar.rop.ru · jp-newsgate.net · pravoslavie.ru
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.
- Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, Eustochius and Companions (362)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eucherius of Lyons (449)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Rufinus, Mark, Valerius and Companions, martyrs in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Afan, a bishop who gave his name to the church of Llanafan in Powys in Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Africus, Bishop of Comminges in France, celebrated for his zeal for Orthodoxy (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- 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)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Otmar, abbot and monastic founder in Switzerland (759)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Lubuinus, missionary to Friesland (773)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ælfric of Abingdon (Aelfric), monk and Abbot of Abingdon, later Bishop of Wilton and twenty-ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in 995 (1005)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 Schemamonk John the Fingerless (1843), disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovskypravoslavie.ru
The list is November 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.