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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 earliest dates for Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church between 1875 and 2099 are April 4, 1915 and April 4, 2010 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to 22 March in the Julian Calendar. The next earliest date for Orthodox Easter, March 23 in the Julian Calendar, last occurred in 1953, and will next occur in 2037. Both of these dates are ...
Eastern to calculate Easter date in the Orthodox rite. day Name of the event related to Easter date or integer number of days before (negative) or after (positive) Easter Sunday. The following days are available by name: Septuagesima 63 days before Easter – this is the earliest date returned by the function Sexagesima 56 days before Easter ...
Revised Julian calendar, a quasi-Gregorian 1923 scheme (sometimes referred to as the "New Calendar") Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eastern Orthodox calendar .
The Greek Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar that most other Christian believers (and secular civilizations) use. Greek Easter is also dictated by the Hebrew ...
What is Orthodox Easter? Orthodox Easter is honored by Orthodox Christians, and is officially observed in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.
Ethiopian (Ethio-Eritrean, Eastern) Easter, or Fasika, however, takes place in all the Christian Churches throughout the country, whether it be Orthodox, Catholic, or Protestant, and follows the eastern method of calculating Easter (see Computus for details), thus tending to fall after Easter in the Western calendar (some years both fall on the ...
In the solar calendar Easter is called a moveable feast since its date varies within a 35-day range. But in the lunar calendar, Easter is always the third Sunday in the paschal lunar month, and is no more "moveable" than any holiday that is fixed to a particular day of the week and week within a month, such as Thanksgiving.