January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 17
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 29 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 3.
Saints
- Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Melapsippus, Cappadocian triplets, and their grandmother Leonilla, and with them Neon, Turbo, and Jonilla, in Cappadocia
- Martyr Danax the Reader of Avlona, Illyria, in Macedonia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Priscilla, of the Roman Glabrio family, who hosted Saint Peter c. AD 42
- Pope Marcellus I, Pope of Rome from 308 to 309, suffered for confessing the faith Venerable Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles and Founder of Lerins Monastery
- Saint James, first Bishop of Tarentaise
- Saint Valerius, Bishop of Sorrento
- Saint Liberata, sister of Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, Italy and Saint Honorata of Pavia
- Saint Honoratus of Fondi, founder of the monastery of Fondi in Italy
- Saint Triverius, hermit
- Saint Tozzo, Bishop of Augsburg
- Saint Fulgentius, Bishop of Cartagena and Ecija, Hispania
- Martyr Sigeberht of East Anglia, King of the East Angles
- Saint Fursey, Irish missionary monk of Burgh Castle, Lagny, and Peronne
- Saint Titian of Oderzo, for thirty years a Bishop near Venice in Italy
- Saint Ferréol, Bishop of Grenoble
- Saint Dunchaid O'Braoin, Abbot of Clonmacnoise
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Romilus the Sinaite, the Hesychast of Mount Athos and Ravanica Monastery, Serbia, disciple of Saint Gregory of Sinai, and with him Saints Nestor, Martinius, Daniel, Sisoes, Zosimas, and Gregory
- Blessed Maximus the Fool for Christ and Wonderworker of Totma, Vologda Oblast
- Saint Gerasimos II Palladas, Patriarch of Alexandria
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Damascene of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Hieromonk of Hilandar, Mount Athos, at Svishtovo, Bulgaria
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest of Mytilene
- New Hieromartyr John Pettaya, Priest