Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Calendar - Fixed Feasts

Fixed Feasts

The following list of dates links only to fixed feasts of the Orthodox Church. These are the fixed dates; the particular day on which that date is observed differs depending upon whether one follows the Julian Calendar (sometimes referred to as the "Old Calendar") or the Revised Julian Calendar ("New Calendar"). All dates having to do with Pascha (Easter) - the beginning of Great Lent, Ascension, Pentecost, etc. - are "moveable" feasts, and thus are not on this calendar (see Paschal cycle).

The following should be remembered in using the following calendar:

• For the day in the Gregorian Calendar. on which those churches which follow the Julian Calendar celebrate any date's fixed commemoration, add 13 days to the date below. For example, Christmas Day (December 25) on the Julian Calendar falls on January 7 of the modern Gregorian Calendar.
• For those churches which follow the Revised Julian Calendar the dates below correspond exactly to the dates on the Gregorian Calendar.

The Orthodox liturgical year begins on September 1.