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Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple

Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple 2026 is on 4 December 2026 · Friday · in 67 days

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  • the Nativity Fast1 January – 6 January
  • the season after Pentecost7 January – 22 February
  • Great Lent23 February – 4 April
  • Holy Week5 April – 11 April
  • the Pentecostarion (Pascha to Pentecost)12 April – 31 May
  • the season after Pentecost1 June – 7 June
  • the Apostles’ Fast8 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

Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple is kept on 21 November 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
20244 December 2024Wednesday
20254 December 2025Thursday
20264 December 2026Friday
20274 December 2027Saturday
20284 December 2028Monday
20294 December 2029Tuesday
20304 December 2030Wednesday
20314 December 2031Thursday
20324 December 2032Saturday

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.