Church calendar 2030: Easter, Lent, Advent, feasts

2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032

Western (Catholic, Anglican, Protestant)

Orthodox (Julian Easter)

Western (Catholic, Anglican, Protestant)

Date
6 January 2030	Epiphany	fixed date
2 February 2030	Candlemas	fixed date
6 March 2030	Ash Wednesday	moves with Easter
25 March 2030	Annunciation	fixed date
14 April 2030	Palm Sunday	moves with Easter
18 April 2030	Maundy Thursday	moves with Easter
19 April 2030	Good Friday	moves with Easter
21 April 2030	Easter Sunday	moves with Easter
30 May 2030	Ascension Day	moves with Easter
9 June 2030	Pentecost	moves with Easter
16 June 2030	Trinity Sunday	moves with Easter
20 June 2030	Corpus Christi	moves with Easter
6 August 2030	Transfiguration	fixed date
15 August 2030	Assumption	fixed date
8 September 2030	Nativity of Mary	fixed date
14 September 2030	Exaltation of the Cross	fixed date
1 November 2030	All Saints’ Day	fixed date
1 December 2030	Advent Sunday	moves with Easter
25 December 2030	Christmas	fixed date

Orthodox (Julian Easter)

Date
6 January 2030	Orthodox Christmas Eve	fixed date
7 January 2030	Orthodox Christmas	fixed date
18 January 2030	Theophany Eve	fixed date
19 January 2030	Theophany	fixed date
15 February 2030	Meeting of the Lord (Orthodox)	fixed date
2 March 2030	Meatfare Memorial Saturday	moves with Easter
4 March 2030	Maslenitsa (Cheesefare Week begins)	moves with Easter
10 March 2030	Forgiveness Sunday	moves with Easter
11 March 2030	Clean Monday	moves with Easter
23 March 2030	Memorial Saturday, 2nd week of Lent	moves with Easter
30 March 2030	Memorial Saturday, 3rd week of Lent	moves with Easter
6 April 2030	Memorial Saturday, 4th week of Lent	moves with Easter
7 April 2030	Orthodox Annunciation	fixed date
20 April 2030	Lazarus Saturday	moves with Easter
21 April 2030	Orthodox Palm Sunday	moves with Easter
26 April 2030	Orthodox Good Friday	moves with Easter
28 April 2030	Orthodox Easter (Pascha)	moves with Easter
7 May 2030	Radonitsa	moves with Easter
22 May 2030	St Nicholas (spring)	fixed date
6 June 2030	Orthodox Ascension	moves with Easter
15 June 2030	Trinity Memorial Saturday	moves with Easter
16 June 2030	Orthodox Pentecost (Trinity)	moves with Easter
17 June 2030	Day of the Holy Spirit	moves with Easter
24 June 2030	Apostles’ Fast begins	moves with Easter
12 July 2030	Saints Peter and Paul	fixed date
2 August 2030	Prophet Elijah’s Day	fixed date
14 August 2030	Dormition Fast begins	fixed date
19 August 2030	Orthodox Transfiguration	fixed date
28 August 2030	Dormition	fixed date
11 September 2030	Beheading of John the Baptist	fixed date
21 September 2030	Orthodox Nativity of the Theotokos	fixed date
27 September 2030	Orthodox Exaltation of the Cross	fixed date
14 October 2030	Protection of the Theotokos (Pokrov)	fixed date
2 November 2030	St Demetrius Memorial Saturday	moves with Easter
4 November 2030	Kazan Icon of the Theotokos	fixed date
28 November 2030	Nativity Fast begins	fixed date
4 December 2030	Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple	fixed date
19 December 2030	St Nicholas (winter)	fixed date

Fasts (Orthodox)

	From	To
Great Lent	11 March 2030	27 April 2030
Apostles’ Fast	24 June 2030	11 July 2030
Dormition Fast	14 August 2030	27 August 2030
Nativity Fast	28 November 2030	6 January 2031

Fast days are those of the Russian Orthodox calendar: the four fasts, Wednesdays and Fridays outside the five fast-free weeks, and three strict single days (Theophany eve, the Beheading of John the Baptist, the Exaltation of the Cross).

Easter: Meeus/Jones/Butcher and Meeus’s Julian algorithm (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 1991). Feast offsets as in the General Roman Calendar and the Orthodox Triodion/Pentecostarion.

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