Easter in 2025 will be celebrated on April 20, and this holiday is celebrated together by Catholics and Protestants. Here is a detailed list of the main church holidays, fasts and memorial days for 2025, allowing believers to better navigate the religious events of the year.
Non-transitory holidays:
– January 6 – Epiphany or Baptism of the Lord
– February 2 – The Meeting of the Lord
– March 25 – Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
– August 6 – Transfiguration of the Lord
– August 15 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary
– September 8 – Nativity of the Virgin Mary
– September 14 – Exaltation of the Holy Cross
– November 21 – Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple
– December 25 – Christmas
When is Easter?
This year, Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants will celebrate the Bright Resurrection of Christ together - on April 20 .
Transitional holidays
April 13 – The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, or as the people call it, Palm Sunday. This is the last Sunday before Easter, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was welcomed by the townspeople.
May 29 – Ascension Day. This commemorates how Jesus Christ ascended into heaven on the 40th day after his resurrection.
June 8 – Holy Trinity Day, Pentecost, or Green Holidays. Celebrated on the 50th day after Easter, it commemorates the one and only time God appeared to people in all three of his hypostases.
Fasts and omnivorous weeks
One-day fasts:
– January 5 – Epiphany Eve (Eve of the Epiphany)
– August 29 – Beheading of John the Baptist
– September 14 – Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord
Multi-day fasts:
– March 3 – April 19 – Lent
– June 16 – July 11 – Peter’s Fast
– August 1 – 14 – Assumption Fast
– November 15 – December 24 – Christmas Lent
Omnivorous weeks:
– December 25 – January 4 – Holidays
– February 10 – 16 – Week of the Publican and the Pharisee
– February 24 – March 2 – Maslenitsa (Cheese Week)
– April 20 – 26 – Easter (Bright Week)
– June 9 – 15 – Trinity Week
Memorial Father's Day:
– February 22 – Ecumenical Father's Saturday (meatless)
– March 15 – Saturday of the second week of Great Lent
– March 22 – Saturday of the third week of Great Lent
– March 29 – Saturday of the fourth week of Great Lent
– April 29 – Radonitsa
– May 9 – Commemoration of the fallen soldiers
– June 7 – Trinity Parental Saturday
– November 1 – Dmitriev Parental Saturday
