Orthodox Feast Days
Dates for 2026 and the years ahead, with the fasting rule kept on each feast and a link to that day in the calendar.
Orthodox feasts fall into two groups. Fixed feasts always keep the same calendar date — the Dormition is always 15 August. Moveable feasts are counted from Pascha, so their civil date changes each year. Dates below follow the Revised Julian (New) Calendar; parishes on the Old Calendar keep fixed feasts thirteen days later, which the methodology page explains.
The Great Feasts
The Twelve Great Feasts, together with Pascha, the Feast of Feasts, are the high points of the liturgical year.
- TheophanyJanuary 6
- Meeting of the LordFebruary 2
- AnnunciationMarch 25
- Palm SundayApril 5
- Holy FridayApril 10
- Pascha (Orthodox Easter)April 12
- AscensionMay 21
- PentecostMay 31
- Sts Peter and PaulJune 29
- TransfigurationAugust 6
- Dormition of the TheotokosAugust 15
- Nativity of the TheotokosSeptember 8
- Exaltation of the CrossSeptember 14
- Entrance of the TheotokosNovember 21
- Nativity (Orthodox Christmas)December 25
Other major commemorations
- Three Holy HierarchsJanuary 30
- Forgiveness SundayFebruary 21
- Clean MondayFebruary 22
- Sunday of OrthodoxyMarch 1
- St Gregory Palamas SundayMarch 8
- Sunday of the Holy CrossMarch 15
- Lazarus SaturdayApril 4
- Holy ThursdayApril 9
- Sunday of All SaintsJune 7
- Nativity of St John the BaptistJune 24
- Beheading of St John the BaptistAugust 29
- Protection of the TheotokosOctober 1
- St DemetriusOctober 26
- Synaxis of the Archangel MichaelNovember 8
- St NicholasDecember 6
Moveable feasts, counted from Pascha
These dates move every year with Pascha. See the full paschalion for Pascha dates through 2050.
- Forgiveness SundayFebruary 21
- Clean MondayFebruary 22
- Sunday of OrthodoxyMarch 1
- St Gregory Palamas SundayMarch 8
- Sunday of the Holy CrossMarch 15
- Lazarus SaturdayApril 4
- Palm SundayApril 5
- Holy ThursdayApril 9
- Holy FridayApril 10
- Pascha (Orthodox Easter)April 12
- AscensionMay 21
- PentecostMay 31
- Sunday of All SaintsJune 7
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