January 16 January 17 January 18 ≍ ≍ January 17 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 January17 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Venerable Anthony the Great, God-bearing father of monasticism (356)January 17/January 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Μέγας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable and God-bearing Father Anthony the Great. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Jonilla and her infant son Turbo (c. 161-180)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουνίλλα καὶ τὸ βρέφος της Τούρβων. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: January 16) Saint Theodosius I the Great, Roman Emperor (395)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Μέγας ὁ βασιλεύς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Emperor Theodosius the Great. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Achilles the Confessor, Hermit of Egypt (5th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀχιλλᾶς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Achilles. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)January 17 . Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. 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)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νέος ὁ Θαυματουργὸς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)The Monk Anthony the Roman. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Venerable Anthony, Founder of Dymsk Monastery, Novgorod (1224)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντ Ρωσίας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Anthony of Dymsk, Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (1232) Saint Anthony, Founder of Krasny Kholm Monastery, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast (1481)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Κρασνοχόλμκιζ. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Anthony of Krasny Kholm. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος Καντακουζηνός. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Anthony, Founder of Chernoezersk (Chernoezero, Chermoezersk) (Black Lake) Monastery, Novgorod (16th century)Venerable Anthony of Chernoezero. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Τσερνοεζέρσκιζ. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φιλόθεος. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Macarius Kalogeras, Hierodeacon of Patmos (1737)St. Macarius Kalogeras, hierodeacon of Patmos (1737). HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Saint Herman Gomzin, Schema-abbot of Zosima Hermitage (1923)

New martyrs and confessors New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐξ Ἰωαννίνων. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. New Hieromartyr Victor Evropeytsev, Priest (1931)January 30 / January 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). 17 января (ст.ст.) 30 января 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). New Hieromartyr Paul Uspensky, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations Repose of Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Βολογκντὰ τῆς Ρωσίας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (feast day: October 26) Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon Bogoslovtsev of Inkerman (1950) Repose of Bishop Sava Saračević of Edmonton (1973)

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Sources January 17/January 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). January 30 / January 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). January 17. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 8. January 17. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 17–18. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 17 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 30 января (17 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 17 января (ст.ст.) 30 января 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).