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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.
Advent. Christmas in Romania (Romanian: Crăciunul în România) is a major annual celebration, celebrated on 24/25 of December, as in most countries of the Christian world. The observance of Christmas was introduced once with the Christianization of Romania but public observance was discouraged during the Communist period (1948–1989).
The official holiday is the Orthodox Easter. The holiday is three days long, Good Friday, [3] Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are non-working. 1 June Ziua Copilului: Children's Day: Public holiday starting with 2017 [4] May/June Rusaliile: Pentecost, Pentecost Monday: The 50th and 51st day after the Orthodox Easter. 15 August
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]
Thomas (not the Apostle) 10th. Kidus Meskel (Feast of the Holy Cross) 11th. Hanna we Iyachew (St Anne and St. Joachim, parents of the Holy Virgin Mary) and Fasilides. 12th. Michael the Archangel, Samuel, and Yared. 13th. Feast of Igziabher Ab (God the Father) and Raphael the Archangel.
e. 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). Together with Pascha, these are the most ...
2023 date 2024 date Remarks 1 January: New Year's Day: Нова Година, Nova Godina: 2 January: 1 January 7 January: Orthodox Christmas: Прв ден Божик, Prv den Božik: 7 January: 8 January April/May: Orthodox Easter Monday: Втор ден Велигден, Vtor den Veligden: 17 April [3] 6 May [3] It is always on a Sunday. 1 ...
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of Patriarch.