Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church Calendar

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Last Updated: 11/10/2022 1:12 PM

 

Below is a list of Commemorated Holidays and Events in 2023

Legend by Importance: ☦, ✞✞, ✞

  • 7 ☦: Nativity of Christ (Christmas)
  • 8 ✞: Synaxis of the Mother of God
  • 14 ✞✞: Circumcision of our Lord/ St. Basil the Great
  • 19 ☦: Holy Theophany of the Lord
  • 20 ✞: Synaxis of St. John the Baptist

  • 12 ✞: Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian & John Chrysostom
  • 15 ☦: The Meeting (Presentation) of the Lord, Our God, and Savior Jesus Christ
  • 27: Great Fast Begins

1-31: Great Fast Continues


  • 16: Great Fast Ends
  • 7 ☦: The Annunciation of The Mother of God
  • 9 ☦: Palm Sunday
  • 16 ☦: The Bright Resurrection of Christ
  • 17-22 ☦: Bright Monday-Saturday (Week)

  • 6 ✞: Great Martyr George
  • 10 ✞: Mid Pentecost
  • 21 ✞: Holy Apostle & Eveangelist John the Theologian
  • 22 ✞: Relics of St. Nikolas the Wonderworker
  • 25 ☦: The Ascension of the Lord

  • 3 ✞: Prayers for the Departed
  • 4 ☦ : Pentecost Day of the Holy Trinity
  • 5 ✞: Day of the Holy Spirit

  • 6 ✞: Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir
  • 7 ☦: Nativity of St. John the Forerunner
  • 12 ☦: Holy Chief Apostles Peter and Paul
  • 21 ✞: Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
  • 23 ✞: Deposition of the Robe of Christ in Moscow
  • 28 ✞: St. Vladimir the Great

  • 2 ✞: Holy Prophet Elias
  • 10 ✞: Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God
  • 14 ✞✞: Procession of the Holy Cross of the Lord
  • 14: Dormition Lent Begins
  • 19 ☦: Transfiguration of the Lord
  • 28 ☦: Dormition of Mother of God
  • 28: Dormition Lent Ends
  • 29 ✞: Icon of Christ not made by hands

  • 8 ✞: Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God
  • 11 ☦: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner
  • 21 ☦: Nativity of the Mother of God
  • 27 ☦: Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord

  • 9 ☦: Repose of St. John the Theologian
  • 14 ☦: The Protection of the Mother of God

  • 4 ✞: Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
  • 12 ✞: St. Ambrosius the Confessor, Metropolitan of Belokrinitsa
  • 21 ✞: Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Michael
  • 26 ✞: St. John Chrysostom
  • 28: Christmas Fast Begins

  • 1-31: Christmas Fast Continues
  • 4 ☦: The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple
  • 19 ✞: St. Nikolas the Wonder Worker