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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.
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The Albanian Orthodox Church became autocephalous on 12 April 1937; 20 December 1968: Bulgaria [20] 1 September 2023: Orthodox Church of Ukraine [21] [22] [23] As of 2025, the Revised Julian Calendar has been adopted by 11 Churches, known as the New Calendarists: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
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.
Orthodox calendar may refer to: Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar. Revised Julian calendar, used by some Eastern Orthodox for the calculation of fixed feasts; Julian calendar, used by some Eastern Orthodox for the calculation of fixed feasts; The OC wall calendar, an LGBT-themed photo wall calendar
In 1923, the Revised Julian calendar was devised.Since then, several Eastern Orthodox Churches have introduced partial changes into their liturgical calendars. [5] Those changes were based on the application of the Revised Julian calendar for the liturgical celebration of immovable feasts (including Christmas), thus reducing the use of the old Julian calendar to liturgical celebration of ...
The majority of Orthodox Christians (Russians, in particular) follow the Julian Calendar in calculating their ecclesiastical feasts, but many (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church of Greece), while preserving the Julian calculation for feasts on the Paschal Cycle, have adopted the Revised Julian Calendar (at present coinciding ...
The liturgical calendar used by Christian denominations in the west are almost all based on the Gregorian calendar, but most Eastern Orthodox churches continue to base theirs on the Julian. A calendar similar to the Julian one, the Alexandrian calendar, is the basis for the Ethiopian calendar, which is still the civil calendar of Ethiopia ...