Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919. However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for the months . In modern Romania and Moldova , the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well.
The Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Romania (Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă de Stil Vechi din România) is an Old Calendarist denomination. Relationship with other denominations [ edit ]
This observance commemorates Christ's baptism by John the Baptist in the River Jordan, and the beginning of Christ's earthly ministry (Gospel of Matthew 3:13–17, Gospel of Mark 1:9–11). It is known by the Orthodox as both Epiphany (i.e., manifestation ) and Theophany ( manifestation of God ).
The holiday is three days long, Good Friday, [3] Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are non-working. 1 June Ziua Copilului: Children's Day: Public holiday starting with 2017 [4] May/June Rusaliile: Pentecost, Pentecost Monday: The 50th and 51st day after the Orthodox Easter. 15 August Adormirea Maicii Domnului/Sfânta Maria Mare: Dormition of the ...
Drawing of Mary, mother of Jesus, 'with her beloved son,' from a Geʽez manuscript copy of Weddasé Māryām, circa 1875. The following list contains calendar of saints observed by the Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data [5]), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, [3] belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Old Calendarists (Greek: palaioimerologitai [5] or palaioimerologites [6]), also known as Old Feasters (palaioeortologitai), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; Greek: Γνήσιοι Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί, romanized: Gnisioi Orthodoxoi Christianoi), are traditionalist groups of Eastern Orthodox Christians that separated from mainstream Eastern ...