January 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 18
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 4.
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Saints
Venerable Anthony the Great, God-bearing father of monasticism (356)
Martyr Jonilla and her infant son Turbo (c. 161-180) (see also: January 16)
Saint Theodosius I the Great, Roman Emperor (395)
Venerable Achilles the Confessor, Hermit of Egypt (5th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)
Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St. Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th century)
Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of Saint Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)
Saint Sulpicius II (Sulpitius II) the Pious (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (644, 646, or 647)
Saint Mildgyth of Minster-in-Thanet, a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent (c. 676)
Saint Richimirus, under the patronage of the Bishop of Le Mans, he founded the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715)
Saint Joseph of Verona, Bishop of Freising (764)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker of Beroea (Beroia, Veria), Macedonia, Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th century)
Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)
Venerable Anthony, Founder of Dymsk Monastery, Novgorod (1224)
Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (1232)
Saint Anthony, Founder of Krasny Kholm Monastery, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast (1481)
Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)
Venerable Anthony, Founder of Chernoezersk (Chernoezero, Chermoezersk) (Black Lake) Monastery, Novgorod (16th century)
Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)
Saint Macarius Kalogeras, Hierodeacon of Patmos (1737)
Saint Herman Gomzin, Schema-abbot of Zosima Hermitage (1923)
New martyrs and confessors
New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)
New Hieromartyr Victor Evropeytsev, Priest (1931)
New Hieromartyr Paul Uspensky, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Repose of Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588) (feast day: October 26)
Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon Bogoslovtsev of Inkerman (1950)
Repose of Bishop Sava Saračević of Edmonton (1973)