June 15 Events Pre-1600 * 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. * 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. * 923 – Battle of So ...

Eastern Orthodox Church calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rule ...

June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. *1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burn ...

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 29 by Orthodox Churches on the

Old Calendar Calendar reform or calendrical reform is any significant revision of a calendar system. The term sometimes is used instead for a proposal to switch to a different calendar design. Principles The prime objective of a calendar is to unambiguo ...

. For June 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

June 3 Events Pre-1600 * 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. * 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...

Saints

* Hieromartyr

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, Bishop of Apollonias, nephew of the

Apostle An apostle (), in its literal sense, is an emissary. The word is derived from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (''apóstolos''), literally "one who is sent off", itself derived from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (''apostéllein''), "to se ...

Barnabas Barnabas (; ; ), born Joseph () or Joses (), was according to tradition an early Christians, Christian, one of the prominent Disciple (Christianity), Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jews, Cyprio ...

(1st century)June 16/29
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
16 Ιουνίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).June 29 / June 16
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). * Martyr Elappas.
16/06/2018
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. * Five Martyrs of Nicomedia, by the sword. * Forty Martyrs of Rome, by fire. * Hieromartyr Tigrius, Priest, and Martyr Eutropius, Reader, of Constantinople (404)16 июня по старому стилю / 29 июня по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2017 год. ''(see also:

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crow ...

)'' * Saint Mnemonios, Bishop of

Amathus Amathus or Amathous () was an ancient city and one of the ancient royal cities of Cyprus until about 300 BC. Some of its remains can be seen today on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about east of Limassol and west of Larnaca. It ...

in Cyprus (4th century) * Saint Tikhon of Amathus in Cyprus, Bishop and

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(425)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Ferreolus, Priest, and Ferrutio, Deacon, brothers from Asia Minor (c. 212)June 16
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint

Similien of Nantes Similien, or , was a 4th-century, French people, French Bishop and Saint. StSimilien lived in the early fourth century and was the third bishop of Nantes, who, according to St. Gregory of Tours, was given the title of grand confessor. He is recorde ...

(''Sambin''), third

Bishop of Nantes The Diocese of Nantes (; ; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Nantes, France. The diocese consists of the department of Loire-Atlantique. It has existed since the 4th century. It is now suffragan of the Archdiocese of Rennes, ...

in France, confessor; St

Gregory of Tours Gregory of Tours (born ; 30 November – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history". He was a prelate in the Merovingian kingdom, encom ...

testified to his holiness. (310) * Saints Actinea and Graecina, both martyrs, the former was beheaded in

Volterra Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods. History ...

in Italy under Diocletian (4th century) * Saints

Aureus of Mainz Aureus of Mainz (born at an unknown date in the Rhone-Loire region; died c. 436 or 451, Mainz or Eichsfeld) is a Roman Catholic saint and the first named bishop of Mainz. His feast is on 16 June. Life His is the first name on the earliest survi ...

, Justina and Companions, during an invasion of the Huns (c. 436 or 451)Rev.

Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould (; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 pu ...

(M.A.). "SS. AUREUS, B.M., AND JUSTINA, V.M. (A.D. 451.)." In: '' The Lives of the Saints.'' Volume the Sixth: June. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 221. * Saint Simplicius of Bourges,

Bishop of Bourges The Archdiocese of Bourges (; ) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire. Bourges Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen (), stands in the city o ...

in France, he defended the Church against the Arian Visigoths (477) * Saint

Cettin Cettin also known as Saint Cettin of Oran or ''Cethach, Cetagh'' and ''Cethagh'' was a disciple of Saint Patrick. He helped St. Patrick in evangelizing in Ireland. St. Patrick consecrated him as an auxiliary bishop of Oran. He is believed to h ...

(''Cethagh''), a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland and consecrated bishop by him (5th century) * Saint Berthaldus (''Bertaud''), a hermit in the Ardennes in France, who was ordained priest by St Remigius of Reims (c. 540) * Saint Aurelianus of Arles,

Bishop of Arles The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its episcopal seat in the city of Arles, in southern France. At the apex of the delta (Camargue) of the Rhone River, some 40 miles from the sea, Arles grew under Liburnian, Celtic, and Punic in ...

in France (c. 550) * Venerable Colman McRoi, a deacon who was a disciple of St

Columba Columba () or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey ...

, he founded a monastery at Reachrain, now

Lambay Island Lambay Island (), often simply Lambay, is an island in the Irish Sea off the coast of north County Dublin, Ireland. The largest island off the east coast of Ireland, it is offshore from the headland at Portrane, and is the easternmost point ...

, near Dublin in Ireland (6th century) * Saint

Curig St Curig was a Celtic bishop and saint of Wales during post Roman times. St Curig settled in Wales in the 7th century AD, during the reign of Maelgwn Gwynedd, for whom he was described as being a warrior. Lore describes Maelgwn becoming ange ...

, Bishop of Llanbadarn in Wales, where several churches are dedicated to him (6th century) * Saints Felix and Maurus, father and son who lived as hermits at what is now called San Felice near

Narni Narni () is an ancient hilltown and (municipality) of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017). At an altitude of , it overhangs a narrow gorge of the River Nera in the province of Terni. It is very close to the geograp ...

in central Italy (6th century) * Venerable

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(''Isfael''), a disciple of St

Teilo Saint Teilo ( or '; Wainewright, John. in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', Vol. XIV. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1912. Accessed 20 July 2013. or '; or '; – 9 February ), also known as Eliud, was a British Christian monk, bisho ...

in Wales, he was consecrated

Bishop of Menevia The Bishop of Menevia was the ordinary of the Diocese of Menevia in the Province of Cardiff in the Catholic Church in Wales. The Diocese of Menevia covered an area of roughly consisting of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, ...

by him (6th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Sabbas of Moscow, Monk of Andronikov Monastery, Moscow (1378) * Venerable

Tikhon of Kaluga Tikhon of Kaluga (died 16 June 1492) was a Russian Orthodox hegumen and saint. He grew up in Moscow and was tonsured a monk as a young man. He then moved to a forest near Medin in Kaluga, living in the hollow of an oak tree. It was on that spot t ...

, or Medyn, founder of the St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1492) * Saint Tikhon of Lukhov, Kostroma (1503) * Martyr Kaikhosro of Georgia, monk, of Jerusalem, under

Abbas I of Persia Abbas I (; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (), was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629. The third son of Shah Mohammad Khodabanda, he is generally considered one of the most important rulers i ...

(1612) * Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk, founder of Krestogorsk Monastery,

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(17th century) * Venerable Moses of Optina, founder and archimandrite of the Skete of St. John the Baptist (1862)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr

Hermogenes (Dolganyov) Georgiy Yefremovich Dolganyov (Георгий Ефремович Долганёв; 25 April 1858 – April 1918) was a prominent Russian Orthodox religious figure, a monarchist and anti-communist, who supported the Union of the Russian People an ...

, Bishop of Tobolsk, and those with him (1918): :* Priests Ephrem Dolganev, Michael Makarov and Peter Korelin. :* Martyr Constantine Miniatov.

Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains or personal effects of a saint or other person preserved for the purpose of veneration as a tangible memorial. Reli ...

s (1200) of Venerable Theodore the Sykeote,

Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

of Anastasiopolis in Galatia (613)Great Synaxaristes:
Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Θεοδώρου τοῦ Συκεώτου
'' 16 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Repose of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1898) * Repose of Righteous Maria (1943), disciple of St. Paul of Taganrog. * ''Translation of the relics (2002) of St.

Theophan the Recluse Theophan the Recluse (), also known as Theophanes the Recluse or the Enlightener Theophan the Recluse of Vysha (; January 10, 1815 – January 6, 1894), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and theologian, recognized as a saint in 1988. Born as Georgy Vas ...

, Bishop of Tambov'' (1894)29 июня (16 июня)
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

Icon gallery

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. File:Bishop Hermogenes.jpg, New Hieromartyr

, Bishop of Tobolsk. File:St Theodore the Sykeote.jpg, Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia. File:Saint Theophan the Recluse.jpg, St.

, Bishop of Tambov.

Notes

References

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Cardinal Gibbons James Cardinal Gibbons (July 23, 1834 – March 24, 1921) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Vicar of North Carolina from 1868 to 1872, Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until ...

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16 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
16 Ιουνίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). *

'' Αποστολική Διακονία της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος (Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece). *
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16 июня по старому стилю / 29 июня по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2017 год. *
16 июня (ст.ст.) 29 июня 2014 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:June 16 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) June in the Eastern Orthodox calendar