Orthodox Calendar
April 2023
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1

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-Holy Theotokos
  • Martyrs Chrysanthius and Daria

2

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Fifth Sunday of Lent
  • St Mary of Egypt
  • Holy Fathers Slain at St Sabbas Monastery
  • St Photine the Samaritan Woman (66)
  • St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)

3

Lenten Fast

  • St James the Confessor of Catania
  • Our Holy Father Serapion (366)

4

Lenten Fast

  • Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra
  • Martyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns (104)

5

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Martyr Nikon and 199 Disciples

6

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Forefeast of Annunciation
  • Ven. Zachariah the Recluse
  • Saint Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.)
  • Commemoration of the Miracle at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (?)

7

Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
  • New Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)

8

Lenten Fast—Wine, Oil and Caviar are Allowed

  • Lazarus Saturday
  • Leavetaking of Annunciation
  • Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel
  • Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel

9

Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Palm Sunday: Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem
  • Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica

10

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Monday
  • Ven. Hilarion the New
  • Repose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)

11

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Tuesday
  • Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Anthusa
  • Our Holy Father John the Hermit (4th c.)

12

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Wednesday
  • Ven. John Climacus
  • Commemoration of an Uncondemning Monk

13

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Great and Holy Thursday
  • Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas
  • Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra (326)
  • St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (1461)

14

Lenten Fast—Strict Fast

  • Great and Holy Friday
  • Ven. Euthymius of Suzdal
  • Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt (4th-6th c.)

15

Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed

  • Great and Holy Saturday
  • Ven. Titus the Wonderworker
  • Holy Martyrs Amphianus and Aedesius (ca. 306)

16

  • Holy Pascha
  • The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Beginning of the Pentecostarion
  • Ven. Nicetas the Confessor
  • Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (886)
  • Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949) (March 21 OC)

17

  • Bright Monday
  • Ven. Joseph the Hymnographer
  • St Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (523)

18

  • Bright Tuesday
  • Martyrs Agathopedes, Theodulus and Their Companions
  • Our Holy Father Mark of Trache (ca. 400)

19

  • Bright Wednesday
  • St Methodius, Enilightener of the Slavs
  • St Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582)

20

  • Bright Thursday
  • Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America
  • Holy Martyr Calliopius, with his mother Theoclea (304)
  • St George the Confessor, bishop of Mitylene (ca. 820)
  • St Nilus (Nil Sorsky), abbot of Sora (1508)
  • Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1948) (March 25 OC)

21

  • Bright Friday
  • The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
  • Apostles of the Seventy Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufuf, Phlegon, Hermes
  • Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)

22

  • Bright Saturday
  • Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia

23

  • Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha
  • St Thomas Sunday
  • Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus and Companions
  • Six Thousand Holy Martyrs in Georgia (1615)
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

24

  • Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum
  • Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian (1st c.)

25

  • Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
  • St Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium
  • St Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto, Italy (ca. 550)
  • Our Holy Mother Athanasia (860)

26

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea
  • St Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655)

27

  • St Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome
  • Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy
  • Holy Martyr Ardalion the Actor (3rd c.)

28

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Apostles of the Seventy Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus
  • Holy Martyr Sabbas the Goth (372)

29

  • Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia

30

  • 3rd Sunday of Pascha
  • Myrrhbearing Women
  • Ven. Zosima of Solovetsk
  • Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him (343)