Calendar of the Church Year

according to the Episcopal Church

January
	1	The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6	The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	7
	8	[Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Misisonary, 1969]
	9	Julia Chester Emery, 1922
	10	William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
	11
	12	Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
	13	Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367
	14
	15
	16
	17	Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356
	18	The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle
	19	Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095
	20	Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250
	21	Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304
	22	Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304
	23	Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893
	24	Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi, 1944
	25	The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
	26	Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul
	27	John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407
	28	Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274
	29
	30
	31

February
	1	Brigid (Bride), 523
	2	The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple
	3	Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg,, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865
	4	Cornelius the Centurion
	5	The Martyrs of Japan, 1597
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13	Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818
	14	Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885
	15	Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730
	16
	17	Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda & Martyr, 1977
	18	Martin Luther, 1546
	19
	20
	21
	22
	23	Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156
	24	Saint Matthias the Apostle
	25
	26
	27	George Herbert, Priest, 1633
	28	[Anna Julia Hayward Cooper, Educator, 1964]
	29

March
	1	David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544
	2	Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672
	3	John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788
	4
	5
	6
	7	Perpetua and Her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202
	8
	9	Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394
	10
	11
	12	Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
	13	[James Theodore Holly, bishop of Haiti and Dominican Republic]
	14
	15
	16
	17	Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461
	18	Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386
	19	Saint Joseph
	20	Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687
	21	Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711
	22	James De Koven, Priest, 1879
	23	Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c. 332
	24	[Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, 1980]
	25	The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary
	26
	27	Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929
	28
	29	John Keble, Priest, 1866
	30
	31	John Donne, Priest, 1631

April
	1	Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872
	2	James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876
	3	Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
	4	Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968
	5
	6
	7	[Tikhon, Patriach of Russia and Confessor, 1925]
	8	William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877
	9	Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945
	10	William Law, Priest, 1761
	11	George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878?
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16
	17
	18
	19	Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012
	20
	21	Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
	22
	23
	24
	25	Saint Mark the Evangelist
	26
	27
	28
	29	Catherine of Siena, 1380?
	30

May
	1	Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles
	2	Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373
	3
	4	Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
	5
	6
	7
	8	Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417
	9	Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
	10
	11
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16	[Martyrs of Sudan, 1983]
	17
	18
	19	Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
	20	Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804
	21
	22
	23
	24	Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States,1870
	25	Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735
	26	Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605
	27
	28
	29
	30
	31	The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following the Day of Pentecost.

June
	1	Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167
	2	Blandina and Her Companions, 177
	3	The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886
	4
	5	Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754
	6
	7
	8
	9	Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597
	10	Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373
	11	Saint Barnabas the Apostle
	12	Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902
	13
	14	Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379
	15	Evelyn Underhill, 1941
	16	Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1752
	17
	18	Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Rhodesia, 1896
	19
	20
	21
	22	Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304
	23
	24	The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
	25
	26
	27
	28	Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202
	29	Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles
	30

July
	1
	2
	3
	4	Independence Day
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11	Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Casino, c. 540
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16
	17	William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836
	18
	19	Macrina, 379
	20	Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman
	21
	22	Saint Mary Magdalene
	23
	24	Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471
	25	Saint James the Apostle
	26	The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
	27	William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909
	28
	29	Mary and Martha of Bethany
	30	William Wilberforce, 1833
	31	Ignatius of Loyola, 1556

August
	1	Joseph of Arimathaea
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6	The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	7	John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866
	8	Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
	9
	10	Lawrence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258
	11	Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253
	12	Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910
	13	Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667
	14	Jonathan Myrick Daniels, 1965
	15	Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	16
	17
	18	William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918
	19
	20	Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
	21
	22
	23
	24	Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
	25	Louis, King of France, 1270
	26
	27	Thomas Gallaudet, 1902, and Henry Winter Syle, 1890
	28	Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430
	29
	30
	31	Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651

September
	1	David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
	2	The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942
	3
	4	Paul Jones, 1941
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9	Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878
	10	Alexander Crummel, 1898
	11
	12	John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
	13	Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258
	14	Holy Cross Day
	15
	16	Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430
	17	Hildegard of Bingen, 1170
	18	Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882
	19	Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
	20	John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871
	21	Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
	22	Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio, and of Illinois, 1852
	23
	24
	25	Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392
	26	Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626
	27
	28
	29	Saint Michael and All Angels
	30	Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420

October
	1	Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530
	2
	3
	4	Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226
	5
	6	William Tyndale, Priest, 1536
	7
	8
	9	Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253
	10	[Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace, 1954]
	11	Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
	12
	13
	14	Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906
	15	Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582
	16	Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556
	17	Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115
	18	Saint Luke the Evangelist
	19	Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812
	20
	21
	22
	23	Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c. 62
	24
	25
	26	Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
	27
	28	Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
	29	James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885
	30
	31

November
	1	All Saints
	2	Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
	3	Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600
	4
	5
	6	William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944
	7	Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
	8
	9
	10	Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461
	11	Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
	12	Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836
	13
	14	Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784
	15
	16	Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093
	17	Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200
	18	Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
	19	Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231
	20	Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
	21
	22	C. S. Lewis, Apologist and spiritual Writer, 1963
	23	Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100
	24
	25	James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935
	26
	27
	28	Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885
	29
	30	Saint Andrew the Apostle

December
	1	Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637
	2	Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910
	3
	4	John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760
	5	Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210
	6	Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342
	7	Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
	14
	15
	16
	17
	18
	19
	20
	21	Saint Thomas the Apostle
	22
	23
	24
	25	The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day
	26	Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
	27	Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist
	28	The Holy Innocents
	29	Thomas Becket, 1170
	30	[Frances Joseph-Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934]
	31

Names in brackets indicate for trial use.

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Last updated: 8 August 2003
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