Learn about all the holidays awaiting Christians according to the church calendar (Orthodox or Greek Catholic) in February 2025.
The church calendar is a system that combines the annual cycle of movable feasts (linked to Easter) and the cycle of fixed feasts and weekdays. In illiterate peasant communities, the entire life was oriented around the worship calendar. All days significant to them were associated not with the month and date, but with a particular saint. For example, beehives were placed out at the apiary on Zosima's day. Thus, the church calendar governed people's existence. Additionally, fasting holds great importance for believers.
Regardless of faith, the calendar is important for observing fasts, both the Great Fast and single-day fasts, as well as church holidays. Note that Ukraine has transitioned to the new Julian calendar. Therefore, the dates of familiar holidays shifted in 2024. As a result, both Orthodox and Greek Catholic believers will celebrate them simultaneously.
All holidays in the Orthodox calendar for February 2025
The church calendar will inform Orthodox believers of important holidays:
February 1 – Saint Trifon the Martyr;
February 2 – Presentation of the Lord;
February 3 – Saints Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess;
February 4 – Saint Hesychius of Pilusium;
February 5 – Holy Martyr Agathopus;
February 6 – Saint Vukola the Venerable, Saint Silvan the Hieromartyr;
February 7 – Saint Paternus the Venerable, Bishop of Lampsacus;
February 8 – Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates; Prophet Zechariah;
February 9 – Saint Nifon the Martyr;
February 10 – Saint Haralampius the Martyr;
February 11 – Hieromartyr Vasily, Bishop of Sevastia;
February 12 – Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch;
February 13 – Saint Martinian the Venerable;
February 14 – Venerable Cyril the Equal-to-the-Apostles; Venerable Aksentius;
February 15 – Apostle Onesimus;
February 16 – Martyrs Pamphilus, Porphyrius, and others;
February 17 – Great Martyr Theodore Tiron; Great Martyr Marianas;
February 18 – Sunday of Zacchaeus; Saint Leo, Pope of Rome;
February 19 – Apostle Archippus;
February 20 – Saint Leo the Venerable, Bishop of Catania;
February 21 – Saint Timothy the Venerable; Saint Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch;
February 22 – Finding of relics of the Martyrs in Eugenia;
February 23 – Hieromartyr Polycarp;
February 24 – The first and second discovery of the head of John the Baptist;
February 25 – Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee; Saint Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople;
February 26 – Saint Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza;
February 27 – Saint Procopius the Confessor, Decapolitan;
February 28 – Saint Basil the Confessor and Procopius's successor.
