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List of Christian liturgical calendars, calendars used by predominantly Christian communities or countries, and calendars referred to as the "Christian calendar."

  • Gregorian calendar, internationally accepted civil calendar used in Western Christendom
  • Armenian calendar, used by Armenian Christians and Churches
  • Coptic calendar, Egyptian liturgical calendar (also known as the Alexandrian calendar) used by Coptic Christians and Churches
  • Ethiopian calendar, principal calendar used in Ethiopia and Eritrea (also known as the Ge'ez calendar or Eritrean calendar)
  • Julian calendar, calendar introduced by Julius Caesar used in most of Eastern Christian churches
    • Revised Julian calendar, calendar used by some Eastern Orthodox churches
  • Liturgical year, annually recurring fixed sequence of Christian feast days

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Gregorian calendar

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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas...

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Christian calendar

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of Christian liturgical calendars, calendars used by predominantly Christian communities or countries, and calendars referred to as the "Christian calendar...

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Calendar

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A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation...

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Liturgical year

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traditional Christian year among Protestants, especially among mainline denominations. Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the...

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Common Era

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year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the...

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Juche calendar

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Gregorian calendar, is "Juche 1" in the Juche calendar. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of Kim Il Sung. The calendar borrows...

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History of calendars

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the Coptic Christian calendar. The Igbo calendar is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria. The calendar has 13 months...

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Lunisolar calendar

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A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates...

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Celtic calendar

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The Celtic calendar is a compilation of pre-Christian Celtic systems of timekeeping, including the Gaulish Coligny calendar, used by Celtic countries to...

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AD 1

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calendar, and a common year starting on Monday by the proleptic Gregorian calendar. It is the epoch year for the Anno Domini (AD) Christian calendar era...

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Julian calendar

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Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still...

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Babylonian calendar

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calendar appear in the Hebrew calendar, Assyrian calendar, Syriac calendar, Old Persian calendar, and Turkish calendar. The Babylonian civil calendar...

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Christianization of saints and feasts

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The term Christianized calendar refers to feast days which are Christianized reformulations of feasts from pre-Christian times. Historian Peter Brown...

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Calendar of saints

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The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring...

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Coptic calendar

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instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is a liturgical calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and...

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Calendar era

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Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras)...

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Civil calendar

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non-Christian countries although some countries use other calendars. 168 of the world's countries use the Gregorian calendar as their sole civil calendar...

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Islamic calendar

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Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic...

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Arabic names of Gregorian months

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Assyrian calendar Hebrew calendar Iranian calendars Babylonian calendar Pre-Islamic Arabian calendar Rumi calendar "The months of the Gregorian (Christian) calendar...

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Leap year

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intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year...

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Ethiopian calendar

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and Eastern Protestant Christian P'ent'ay (Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelical) Churches. The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar that has much in common...

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Hindu calendar

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The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent...

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International Fixed Calendar

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International Fixed Calendar (also known as the IFC, Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a proposed calendar reform designed by...

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Name day

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and their birthday in a given year. The custom originated with the Christian calendar of saints: believers named after a saint would celebrate that saint's...

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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints...

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Sunday

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Islamic calendar, Hebrew calendar and traditional calendars (including Christian calendars) Sunday is the first day of the week; Quaker Christians call Sunday...

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Week

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resting on the seventh. Most Christians observe Sunday (the Lord's Day), the first day of the week in traditional Christian calendars, in honor of the resurrection...

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Heart of a Dog

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Sharikov". Preobrazhensky wanted to pick a name from his Orthodox Christian calendar, and Sharik instead picked the publisher name, "Poligraf", which in...

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