The church calendar for October 2024 is Orthodox and Greek Catholic

Learn about all the holidays that await Christians according to the church calendar (Orthodox or Greek Catholic) in October 2024.

The church calendar is a system that combines the annual cycle of transitional holidays (linked to Easter) and the cycle of non-transitional holidays and weekdays. The whole life of illiterate peasants was focused on the liturgical calendar. All the days that are important to them were not associated with the month and number, but with one or another saint. For example, beehives were exhibited in apiaries on Zosyma. Yes, people's lives were governed by the church calendar. Fasting is also of great importance for believers. Regardless of religion, the calendar is important for observing fasts, both Great and one-day fasts, as well as church holidays.

Please note that Ukraine has switched to the New Julian calendar. So the dates of the usual holidays were shifted to 2024. Therefore, Orthodox and Greek Catholic believers will celebrate them at the same time.

All holidays in the Orthodox calendar for October 2024

The church calendar will tell Orthodox believers about important holidays:

October 1 – Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos; Saint Rev. Roman Sladkopivets;
October 2 – Saint Kyprian; of the holy priest-martyr Justyna; St. Reverend Andrew;
October 3 – Holy Martyr Dionysius the Areopagite;
October 4– the holy hieromartyr Eroteus, bishop of Athens; Saint Francis of Assisi;
October 5 – the holy martyr Kharytina;
October 6 – Saint Thomas the Apostle;
October 7 >– holy martyrs Sergius and Bacchus;
October 8 – saint Reverend Pelagia;
October 9 – holy apostle Jacob Alphaeus;
10 October – the holy martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia;
October 11 – the holy apostle Philip; Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Nicaea;
October 12 – the holy martyrs of Prova, Tarach and Andronikos; St. Venerable Cosmas;
October 13 – the holy martyrs Karpus, Papila and Agathonica;
October 14 – St. Venerable Paraskeva of Tarnavska; holy martyrs Nazarius and others;
October 15 – Holy Fathers of the VII Ecumenical Council; Saint Reverend Euthymius the New; Saint Lucian the Reverend Martyr;
October 16– the holy martyr Longinus, the centurion;
October 17 – the holy prophet Hosea; Saint Andrew the Martyr of Crete;
October 18 – Saint Luke the Apostle and Evangelist;
October 19 – Saint Prophet Joel; the holy martyr Uar; St. Venerable Ivan;
October 20 – Saint Great Martyr Artemios;
October 21 – St. Venerable Hilarion the Great;
October 22 >- Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Averkios, Bishop of Hierapolis;
October 23 – Saint James the Apostle;
October 24 – Saint Martyr Aretta and those who are with him;
October 25 – holy martyrs Markian and Martyrius;
October 26 – holy great martyr Dimitry Myrotochets;
October 27 – holy martyr Nestor; the holy martyrs Capitolina and Herotiida;
October 28 – the holy martyrs Terentius and Neonila; of the holy martyr Paraskeva Pyatnytsia;
October 29 – the holy venerable martyr Anastasia;
October 30 – of the holy martyrs Zinovia and Zinovia, his sister;
< October 31 – Saints Stachios, Amplius and others; of the holy martyr Epimachus.

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