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During martial law a public holiday is not a non-working day. [10]Easter postcard (by Jacques Hnizdovsky). Before the Orthodox Church of Ukraine [11] [12] and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church [13] switched to the Revised Julian calendar in September 2023 all religious holidays were observed according to the Julian calendar, since then Christmas is officially celebrated on 25 December. [5]
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) [a] is a major archiepiscopal sui iuris ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Catholic Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See. It is the third-largest particular church in the Catholic Church after the Latin Church and the Syro-Malabar ...
A didukh in Lviv A Christmas parade in Lviv in January 2022, when the old Julian calendar was followed. Traditional Ukrainian Christmas festivities last from December 24 to January 6, the date of the celebration of the baptism of Jesus, which known in Ukraine as Vodokhreshche or Yordan, [6] according to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), [7 ...
The majority of Ukrainian Catholics belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The Latin Church in the territories of modern Ukraine has been strongly associated with Poland and Poles, but the church has emphasized a Ukrainian identity since the nation's independence from the Soviet Union. The history of the Catholic Church in modern ...
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After the Bishops' Council was held on 24 May 2023, it became known that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) would ask the authorities to postpone Statehood Day, as well as Defenders Day, due to a the adoption of the Revised Julian Calendar by the church (the dates are similar to that of the more recognised Gregorian calendar), because the ...
Ukrainian Catholic Church may refer to: the Catholic Church in Ukraine; the Eastern Catholic Churches which originated in Ukraine that use the Byzantine Rite:
The Eparchy of Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris (French: Éparchie Saint Vladimir-le-Grand de Paris des Ukrainiens; Ukrainian: Єпархія Святого Володимира Великого у Парижі) is an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a sui iuris church of the Roman Catholic Church.