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Orthodox Exaltation of the Cross

Orthodox Exaltation of the Cross 2027 is on 27 September 2027 · Monday · in 364 days

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  • the Nativity Fast1 January – 6 January
  • the season after Pentecost7 January – 14 March
  • Great Lent15 March – 24 April
  • Holy Week25 April – 1 May
  • the Pentecostarion (Pascha to Pentecost)2 May – 20 June
  • the season after Pentecost21 June – 27 June
  • the Apostles’ Fast28 June – 11 July
  • the season after Pentecost12 July – 13 August
  • the Dormition Fast14 August – 27 August
  • the season after Pentecost28 August – 27 November
  • the Nativity Fast28 November – 31 December

How the date is found

Orthodox Exaltation of the Cross is kept on 14 September of the Julian calendar, which the Russian, Serbian, Georgian and Jerusalem churches follow; on the civil calendar that is thirteen days later until 2100.

Every year

YearDateDay
202427 September 2024Friday
202527 September 2025Saturday
202627 September 2026Sunday
202727 September 2027Monday
202827 September 2028Wednesday
202927 September 2029Thursday
203027 September 2030Friday
203127 September 2031Saturday
203227 September 2032Monday

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.