Byzantine liturgical calendar

E124805

The Byzantine liturgical calendar is the traditional Eastern Christian system of feasts, fasts, and saint commemorations that structures the worship life and yearly cycle of the Byzantine Rite churches.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (11)

Statements (88)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine Rite tradition
liturgical calendar
alsoUses Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: Gregorian calendar

Revised Julian calendar
associatedWithBook Horologion
Menaion
Octoechos
Pentecostarion
Triodion
Typikon
basedOn Julian calendar
centralFeast Easter
Easter
surface form: Pascha
determines fasting rules
feast rankings
lectionary readings
liturgical hymns
liturgical tones
developedFrom early Christian liturgical practice
developedIn Byzantine Empire
emphasizes Paschal mystery
cycle of feasts and fasts
hasComponent Menaion
surface form: Menaion cycle

Octoechos
surface form: Octoechos cycle

Paschal cycle
Pentecostarion
surface form: Pentecostarion cycle

Triodion
surface form: Triodion cycle

fixed cycle
movable cycle
hasFeastRank Doxology feast
Great Feast
Great Feast
surface form: Polyeleos feast

simple commemoration
hasLanguageTraditions Arabic
Church Slavonic
English
Georgian language
surface form: Georgian

Greek
Romanian
includesCommemoration hierarchs
local saints
martyrs
monastic saints
prophets
saints
includesFast Apostles' Fast
surface form: Apostles Fast

Dormition Fast
Lent
surface form: Great Lent

Nativity Fast
weekly Friday fast
weekly Wednesday fast
includesFastDay Beheading of John the Baptist
Feast of the Theophany
surface form: Eve of Theophany

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
surface form: Exaltation of the Holy Cross
includesFeast Annunciation
Ascension Day
surface form: Ascension of the Lord

Dormition of the Theotokos
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
surface form: Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Holy Week
Finding in the Temple
surface form: Meeting of the Lord in the Temple

Nativity of Christ
Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
surface form: Nativity of the Theotokos

Palm Sunday
Pentecost
Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
surface form: Presentation of the Theotokos

Epiphany
surface form: Theophany

Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord
surface form: Transfiguration of the Lord
organizes liturgical year
regulates Eucharistic celebrations
Hours
Matins
Vespers
processions
startOfLiturgicalYear September 1
structures worship life
timePeriodOfFormation first millennium
tradition Byzantine Rite
usedBy Antiochian Orthodox Church
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Byzantine Rite
surface form: Byzantine Rite churches

Eastern Catholic Churches
surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church
Melkite Greek Catholic
surface form: Melkite Greek Catholic Church

Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Apostle Bartholomew commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
Revised Julian calendar category Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Sant’Anna (Italian) commemoratedBy Byzantine liturgical calendar
subject surface form: Sant’Anna
this entity surface form: Orthodox liturgical calendar
Slovak Greek Catholic Church hasLiturgicalCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
Saint Isaac of Dalmatia commemoratedBy Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church hasLiturgicalCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
Archbishopric Cathedral of St. John the Theologian, Nicosia liturgicalCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Spyridon of Trimythous commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Saint Vincent of Saragossa hasFeastIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent (Byzantine Rite) category Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Byzantine liturgical feasts
Summer Lent followsCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
Greek East usesCalendarTradition Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Byzantine calendar
Christian monastic heritage of Greece associatedWith Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Orthodox liturgical calendar
Archbishop of Thessaloniki liturgicalCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Orthodox Study Bible focusesOn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Orthodox liturgical year
Saint Bartholomew commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
Thomas Sunday partOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Thomas Sunday partOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Byzantine Rite liturgical calendar
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee hasLiturgicalYearContext Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical year
Meatfare Sunday partOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical year
Lenten Matins followsCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
Metropolis of Atlanta liturgicalCalendar Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Anne commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
Saint Panteleimon commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Gregorios hasNameDayIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Greek Orthodox calendar
Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy partOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
Tarasios commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
Saint Edward commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
subject surface form: Saint Edward the Martyr
this entity surface form: Orthodox liturgical calendar
autocephalous Church of Greece fastingTradition Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Orthodox fasting calendar
Milutin hasNameDayInSomeTraditions Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Orthodox Christian calendar
Saint Spyridon commemoratedIn Byzantine liturgical calendar
this entity surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar