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November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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November 16 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective November 16 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew (60)

Saint Fulvianus (Fulvian) (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)

Saint Thomas II the New, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (668–669) (see also: November 14 and November 15)

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)

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

New Hieromartyrs Theodore Kolierov, Priest, and with him Martyrs Ananius Boikov and Michael Boldakov (1929)

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