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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.
Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada; Romanian Orthodox Church. Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada; Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia; Georgian Orthodox Church. Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church in North America [2] Orthodox Church ...
At the same time large numbers of Greeks and other Eastern Orthodox Christians were also immigrating to America. At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not ...
For explanation, see the article about the Gregorian calendar. Except where stated otherwise, the transition was a move by the civil authorities from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. In religious sources it could be that the Julian calendar was used for a longer period of time, in particular by Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches. The ...
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 Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Orthodox liturgical calendar may refer to: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar; Hebrew calendar used in Orthodox Jewish liturgy This page was last edited on 4 ...
Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russian and other traditions, follow the ancient Julian calendar, which runs 13 days later than the Gregorian calendar, used by Catholic and ...