November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
November 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 17
All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For November 16, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 3.
Saints
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew- Saint Fulvianus, prince of Ethiopia,
- Virgin-martyr Ephigenia of Ethiopia .
- Hieromartyr Hypatius of Gangra, Bishop of Gangra, Wonderworker
- Saint Thomas II the New, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Fidentius Armenus, an early saint in Padua in Italy
- Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, Eustochius and Companions
- Saint Eucherius of Lyons
- 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
- Saint Africus, Bishop of Comminges in France, celebrated for his zeal for Orthodoxy
- Saint Gobrain, a monk who became Bishop of Vannes in Brittany and at the age of eighty-seven went to live as a hermit
- Saint Otmar, abbot and monastic founder in Switzerland
- Saint Lubuinus, missionary to Friesland
- Saint Ælfric of Abingdon, monk and Abbot of Abingdon, later Bishop of Wilton and twenty-ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in 995
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Theodore Kolierov, Priest, and with him Martyrs Ananius Boikov and Michael Boldakov
- New Hieromartyrs Michael Abramov, Protopresbyter, and priests Basil Sokolov, Victor Voronov, John Tsvetkov, Makarius Soloviev and Nicholas Troitsky
- New Hieromartyr Panteleimon Arzhanykh, Abbot of Optina Monastery
- Martyr Demetrius Spiridonov
- '''New Hieromartyr Philoumenos (Hasapis) of Jacob's Well'''
Other commemorations
- Repose of Schemamonk John the Fingerless, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky.