The church calendar for February 2025 will see Orthodox Christians celebrating one of the twelve major feasts of the church - the Meeting of the Lord.
This is reported by Politeka.
In September 2023, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine switched to the New Julian calendar, which means that fixed church holidays are observed 13 days earlier.
Church calendar for February 2025:
February 1 - Eve of the Meeting of the Lord, martyr Tryphon, and Venerable Peter of Galatia.
According to the new style, on February 2, the Meeting of the Lord is celebrated.
February 3 – Righteous Simeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess, Saint Ignatius of Mariupol, Metropolitan of Gothia and Kephala, and the discovery of the relics of Saint Raphael (Zaborovsky), Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and all Rus.
February 4 – Venerable Isidore of Pelusium, Venerable Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of Studion.
February 5 - Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernihiv, icon of the Mother of God of Elets-Chernihiv, and the icon of the Mother of God "The Seeking of the Lost".
February 6 – Venerable Varsonofy the Great and John the Prophet, Venerable Ukol, Bishop of Smyrna, and Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
February 7 – Venerable Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus, Venerable Luke of Hellas, and the 1003 martyrs of Nicomedia.
February 8 – The Feast of the Presentation, Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates, and the Prophet Zechariah the Serpent-bearer.
February 9 - Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, Venerable Pancratius, the hermit of Kyiv-Pechersk, and the discovery of the relics of Saint Innocent.
February 10 – Venerable Prochorus, Miracle-worker of Kyiv-Pechersk, Blessed Princess Anna of Novgorod, and the icon of the Mother of God "Fiery Vision", Society (February 10-16).
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February 11 – Hieromartyr Blasius, Bishop of Sebastia, Blessed Prince Vsevolod, in holy baptism Gabriel, of Pskov.
February 12 – Saint Alexis, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus, Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkiv, and the Iveron icon of the Mother of God.
February 13 – Venerable Martinian, Blessed Prince Constantine of Ostrog, and Venerable Eulogius, Archbishop of Alexandria.
February 14 – Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril, Teacher of the Slavs, Venerable Isaac, the hermit of Kyiv-Pechersk, and the twelve Greeks, builders of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
February 15 – Venerable Paphnutius, the hermit of Kyiv-Pechersk.
February 16 - Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Martyrs Pamphilus the Presbyter, Valens, Paul, Porphyrius, Selevkios, Theodulus, Julian, Samuel, Elijah, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah.
February 17 – Great Martyr Theodore Tyron, Venerable Theodore, the Silent of Kyiv-Pechersk.
February 18 – Venerable Cosmas of Yakhroma, Saint Leo, Pope of Rome.
February 19 – Apostles of the Seventy Philemon and Archippus.
February 20 – Blessed Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv, Leo of Catania, and Venerable Agathon of Kyiv-Pechersk.
February 21 – Venerable Timothy of Olympus, Archbishop Eustathius of Antioch, and Kozelshchanskaya icon of the Mother of God.
February 22 – Discovery of the relics of Christian martyrs in Eugenia, Martyrs Mauritius and 70 soldiers, Universal Parent Saturday (Meatfare).
February 23 - Sunday of Meatfare, concerning the Last Judgment, Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna.
February 24 – The first and second finding of the head of Saint John the Baptist, Venerable Erasmus of Kyiv-Pechersk, beginning of Cheese Week (Maslenitsa), Society (from February 24 to March 2).
February 25 – Saint Tarasius of Constantinople.
February 26 – Saint Porphyrius.
February 27 – Procopius of Decapolis, Venerable Titus, Presbyter of Kyiv-Pechersk, Venerable Titus of Kyiv-Pechersk, a former soldier.
February 28 – Venerable Basil, Saint Arsenius, Metropolitan of Rostov, and Venerable Cassian, the hermit of Kyiv-Pechersk.