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t. e. 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 ...
Not a public holiday. 23 April. Railway Day, Librarian Day, World Book Day, National Day of the Romanian Tax Consultant. 29 April. War Veterans' Day [ 10] First Sunday in May (May 5 in 2024) Mother's Day. Second Sunday in May (May 12 in 2024) Father's Day, Teenager's Day and National Dress Day.
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 ...
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. 14th.
January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) January 10 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 12. All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 24 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [ note 1] For January 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 29 .
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, [ 1] is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. [ 2][ 3] Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") Eastern Orthodox Church is organised into autocephalous ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, [9] [10] [11] and also called the Greek Orthodox Church [12] or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, [a] [13] [14] with approximately 230 million baptised members.
In churches that follow the old or Julian Calendar, the fast is from August 14 to August 28. In the Coptic Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, whose calendar is generally consistent with the Julian Calendar, the dates of the fast are from August 7 to August 22.