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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.
'Roman year since the creation of the universe', abbreviated as ε.Κ.), was the calendar used by the Eastern Orthodox Church from c. 691 to 1728 in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. [2] [note 2] It was also the official calendar of the Byzantine Empire from 988 to 1453 and it was used in Russia until 1700.
Churches that adopted this calendar did so on varying dates. However, all Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the Julian calendar to determine the date of Easter (except for the Finnish Orthodox Church, which now uses the Gregorian Easter; the Estonian Orthodox Church used the Gregorian Easter from 1923 to 1945).
But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some ...
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the feast of the death and Resurrection of Jesus, called Pascha (Easter), is the greatest of all holy days and as such it is called the "feast of feasts". Immediately below it in importance, there is a group of Twelve Great Feasts (Greek: Δωδεκάορτον).
An Eastern Orthodox cross. March 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 25. All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For March 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 11.
The Eastern Orthodox cross. January 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 20. All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 1 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For January 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 6.
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