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{{Short description|Anglican Church of Australia calendar}}
{{Short description|Anglican Church of Australia calendar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2013}}<!--As per [[WP:NOTDIRECTORY]] and [[WP:NOTGUIDE]], do not add into this Wikipedia article the lists of saints and feasts found in this calendar. Wikipedia is not here to contain copy-paste of entire pages of missals or other documents.-->

The calendar of the [[Anglican Church of Australia]] (as published in ''A Prayer Book for Australia'' [1995]) follows [[Saints in Anglicanism|Anglican]] tradition with the addition of significant people and events in the church in Australia.
The calendar of the [[Anglican Church of Australia]] (as published in ''A Prayer Book for Australia'' [1995]) follows [[Saints in Anglicanism|Anglican]] tradition with the addition of significant people and events in the church in Australia.

''Principal festivals'' (principal holy days) may not be displaced. ''Festivals'' (holy days), if falling on a Sunday, may be displaced to a following weekday. The celebration of lesser festivals (commemorations) is optional.


== Principal festivals ==
== Principal festivals ==

Principal festivals are:<ref>''A Prayer Book for Australia'' (1995)</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2022}}
Most of these are [[moveable feast]]s.

* [[Easter]]
* [[Easter]]
* [[Ascension of Jesus Christ|Ascension]]
* [[Ascension of Jesus Christ|Ascension]]
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* [[Maundy Thursday]]
* [[Maundy Thursday]]
* [[Good Friday]]
* [[Good Friday]]

== Festivals ==

* [[Jesus|The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus]], 1 January
* [[Jesus|The Presentation of Christ in the Temple]], 2 February
* [[Saint Matthias|Matthias]], 24 February or 14 May
* [[Saint Joseph|Joseph]], 19 March
* The [[Annunciation]] to Mary, 25 March
* [[Mark the Evangelist]], 25 April (or 26 April if [[ANZAC Day]] is observed on the 25th)
* [[Philip the Apostle|Philip]] and [[Saint James the Less|James]], 1 May or 3 May
* [[Barnabas]], 11 June
* The Birth of [[John the Baptist]], 24 June
* [[Saint Peter|Peter]] and [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]], 29 June
* [[Mary Magdalene]], 22 July
* [[Saint James the Great|James]], 25 July
* [[Transfiguration of Jesus]], 6 August
* [[Mary (mother of Jesus)]], 15 August
* [[Bartholomew]], 24 August
* [[Matthew the Evangelist|Matthew]], 21 September
* [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] and All [[Angel]]s, 29 September
* [[Luke the Evangelist|Luke]], 18 October
* [[Simon the Zealot|Simon]] and [[Saint Jude|Jude]], 28 October
* [[Saint Andrew|Andrew]], 30 November
* [[Thomas the Apostle|Thomas]], 21 December or 3 July
* [[Saint Stephen|Stephen]], 26 December or 3 August
* [[John the Evangelist]], 27 December or 6 May
* [[Massacre of the Innocents|Holy Innocents]], 28 December

== Calendar of festivals and saints ==

'''Bold''' type indicates festivals and principal festivals.

=== January ===

* 1: '''[[Jesus|The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus]]'''
* 2: [[Basil of Caesarea]] and [[Gregory of Nazianzus]], bishops and teachers (d. 379 and 389)
* 2: [[Eliza Marsden Hassall]], missionary (d. 1917)
* 6: '''[[Epiphany (Christian)|Epiphany]]'''
* 10: [[William Laud]], archbishop of Canterbury, martyr (d. 1645)
* 13: [[Hilary of Poitiers]], bishop and teacher (d. 367)
* 14: [[Saint Sava|Sava]], archbishop (d. 1235)
* 17: [[Anthony the Great]], abbot (d. 356)
* 18: [[Peter's confession|Confession of Peter]]
* 21: [[Saint Agnes|Agnes]], martyr (d. 304)
* 22: [[Vincent of Saragossa]], deacon and martyr (d. 304)
* 24: [[Paul of Tarsus|Companions of Paul]], including [[Saint Timothy|Timothy]], [[Apostle Titus|Titus]] and [[Silas]]
* 25: [[Paul of Tarsus#Early life|Conversion of Paul]]
* 26: [[Australia Day]]
* 27: [[John Chrysostom]], bishop and teacher (d. 407)
* 28: [[Thomas Aquinas]], theologian (d. 1274)
* 30: [[Charles I of England]], King of England, martyr (d. 1649)

=== February ===

* 2: '''[[Jesus|The Presentation of Christ in the Temple]]'''
* 3: [[Anglican Church of Australia|First Anglican service at Sydney Cove]]
* 4: [[Ansgar]], bishop (d. 865)
* 5: [[Martyrs of Japan]] (d. 1597)
* 14: [[Saints Cyril and Methodius|Cyril]] (d. 869) and [[Saint Methodius of Thessaloniki|Methodius]] (d. 885), missionaries
* 20: [[William Grant Broughton]], first bishop of Australia (d. 1853)
* 23: [[Polycarp]], bishop and martyr (d. ''c.'' 155)
* 24: '''[[Saint Matthias|Matthias]]''' (alternative date: 14 May)
* 27: [[George Herbert]], priest and poet (d. 1633)

=== March ===

* 1: [[Saint David|David]], bishop (d. ''c.'' 589)
* 2: [[Chad of Mercia|Chad]], bishop (d. 672)
* 7: [[Perpetua and Felicity|Perpetua and her companions]], martyrs (d. 203)
* 8: [[John of God]], worker among the sick and poor (d. 1550)
* 9: [[Emma Crawford|Sister Emma]], Superior of the [[Society of the Sacred Advent]] (d. 1939)
* 17: [[Saint Patrick|Patrick]], bishop and missionary (d. 461)
* 18: [[Cyril of Jerusalem]], bishop and teacher (d. 386)
* 19: '''[[Saint Joseph|Joseph]]'''
* 20: [[Cuthbert of Lindisfarne]], bishop and missionary (d. 687)
* 21: [[Thomas Cranmer]], archbishop of Canterbury, martyr and liturgist (d. 1556)
* 24: [[Paul Couturier]], ecumenist (d. 1953)
* 25: '''[[Annunciation|The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary]]'''
* 29: [[John Keble]], priest (d. 1866)

=== April ===

* 3: [[Richard of Chichester]], bishop (d. 1253)
* 6: [[Frederic Barker]], bishop of Sydney (d. 1882)
* 8: [[Georgiana Molloy]], church leader and botanist (d. 1843)
* 9: [[William Law]], priest and teacher (d. 1761)
* 9: [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], theologian (d. 1945)
* 11: [[George Augustus Selwyn]], missionary, bishop of New Zealand (d. 1878)
* 21: [[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], archbishop of Canterbury, teacher (d. 1109)
* 23: [[Saint George|George]], martyr (d. ''c.'' 303)
* 24: [[Óscar Romero]], archbishop of San Salvador (d. 1980)
* 25: '''[[Mark the Evangelist|Mark]]''' (d. evangelist and martyr) (alternative date: 26 April)
* 25: [[ANZAC Day]]
* 29: [[Catherine of Siena]], spiritual teacher (d. 1380)

=== May ===

* 1: '''[[Philip the Apostle|Philip]] and [[Saint James the Less|James]]''', apostles and martyrs (alternative date: 3 May)
* 2: [[Athanasius of Alexandria|Athanasius]], bishop of Alexandria, teacher (d. 373)
* 6: '''[[John the Evangelist|John]]''' (d. apostle evangelist) (alternative date: 27 December)
* 8: [[Julian of Norwich]], mystic (d. ''c.'' 1416)
* 14: '''[[Saint Matthias|Matthias]]''' (alternative date: 24 February)
* 19: [[Dunstan]], archbishop of Canterbury (d. 988)
* 24: [[John Wesley|John]] (d. 1791) and [[Charles Wesley]] (d. 1788), evangelists
* 25: [[Bede|Bede of Jarorw]], priest and teacher (d. 735)
* 26: [[Augustine of Canterbury]], missionary and bishop (d. ''c.'' 605)
* 27 May to 3 June: [[Reconciliation (theology)|Week of Prayer for Reconciliation]]
* 31: [[Visitation (Christian)|The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth]]

=== June ===

* 1: [[Justin Martyr]] (d. 165)
* 3: [[Martyrs of Uganda]] (d. 1885 to 1887)
* 3: [[Janani Luwum]], archbishop of Uganda (d. 1977)
* 3: [[Pope John XXIII|John XXIII]], bishop of Rome, reformer (d. 1963)
* 5: [[Saint Boniface|Boniface of Mainz]], bishop and martyr (d. 754)
* 9: [[Columba|Columba of Iona]], abbot and missionary (d. 597)
* 11: '''[[Barnabas]]''', apostle and martyr (d. 61)
* 13: [[Anthony of Padua]], missionary and preacher (d. 1231)
* 15: [[Evelyn Underhill]], spiritual writer (d. 1941)
* 22: [[Saint Alban|Alban]], martyr (d. ''c.'' 209)
* 24: '''[[John the Baptist|The Birth of John the Baptist]]'''
* 27: [[Cyril of Alexandria]], bishop and teacher (d. 444)
* 28: [[Irenaeus]], bishop and teacher (d. ''c.'' 200)
* 29: '''[[Saint Peter|Peter]] and [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]]''', apostles and martyrs

=== July ===

* 1: [[Torres Strait Islands|first missionaries to the Torres Strait]]
* 3: '''[[Thomas the Apostle|Thomas]]''', martyr (alternative date: 21 December)
* 6: [[John Fisher]] and [[Thomas More]], martyrs (d. 1535)
* 11: [[Benedict of Nursia]], abbot (d. ''c.'' 550)
* 13: [[Sydney James Kirkby]], bishop (d. 1935)
* 22: '''[[Mary Magdalene]]'''
* 25: '''[[James, son of Zebedee|James]]''', apostle and martyr (d. 44)
* 26: [[Saint Anne|Anne]], mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
* 29: [[Mary, sister of Lazarus|Mary]] and [[Martha]] of Bethany
* 30: [[William Wilberforce]], social reformer (d. 1833)
* 31: [[Joseph of Arimathea]]
* 31: [[Ignatius of Loyola]], priest, founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1556)

=== August ===

* 1: [[Old Testament|Holy men and women of the Old Testament]]
* 3: '''[[Saint Stephen|Stephen]]''', martyr (alternative date: 26 December)
* 4: [[Jean Vianney]], parish priest (d. 1895)
* 5: [[Oswald of Northumbria]], king and martyr (d. 642)
* 6: '''[[Transfiguration of Jesus]]'''
* 8: [[Saint Dominic|Dominic]], priest and friar (d. 1221)
* 9: [[Mary Sumner]], founder of the Mothers' Union (d. 1921)
* 10: [[Lawrence of Rome|Laurence]], deacon and martyr (d. 258)
* 11: [[Clare of Assisi]] (d. 1252)
* 11: [[John Henry Newman]], cardinal and theologian (d. 1890)
* 13: [[Jeremy Taylor]], bishop and spiritual writer (d. 1667)
* 14: Twentieth-century martyrs, including [[Maximilian Kolbe]], [[Maria Skobtsova]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]
* 15: '''[[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary, mother of the Lord]]'''
* 20: [[Bernard of Clairvaux]], abbot and teacher (d. 1153)
* 24: '''[[Bartholomew]]''', apostle and martyr
* 27: [[Monica of Hippo|Monica]], mother of Augustine (d. 387)
* 28: [[Augustine of Hippo]], bishop and teacher (d. 430)
* 29: [[John the Baptist|Beheading of John the Baptist]]
* 31: [[John Bunyan]], preacher and spiritual writer (d. 1688)
* 31: [[Aidan of Lindisfarne]], bishop and missionary (d. 651)

=== September ===

* 2: [[Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea#The New Guinea Martyrs|Martyrs of New Guinea]] (d. 1942)
* 3: [[Pope Gregory I|Gregory of Rome]], bishop and teacher (d. 604)
* 3: [[Eliza Darling]], social reformer in New South Wales (d. 1868)
* 8: '''[[Nativity of Mary|Birth of Mary, mother of the Lord]]'''
* 11: [[Emma Caroline Silcock|Mother Esther, founder of the Community of the Holy Name]] (d. 1931)
* 13: [[Cyprian|Cyprian of Carthage]], bishop and martyr (d. 258)
* 14: [[Feast of the Cross|Holy Cross]]
* 15: [[John Oliver Feetham]], bishop and bush brother (d. 1947)
* 16: [[Saint Ninian|Ninian of Galloway]], bishop and missionary (d. ''c.'' 432)
* 17: [[Hildegard of Bingen]], abbess and spiritual writer (d. 1179)
* 18: [[John Wollaston (clergyman)|John Ramsden Wollaston]], priest and missionary of Western Australia (d. 1856)
* 20: [[John Coleridge Patteson]], first bishop of Melanesia, martyr (d. 1871)
* 21: '''[[Matthew the Evangelist|Matthew]]''' (d. apostle, evangelist and martyr)
* 25: [[Sergius of Radonezh|Sergius of Moscow]], abbot and teacher (d. 1392)
* 26: [[Lancelot Andrewes]], bishop of Winchester (d. 1626)
* 27: [[Vincent de Paul (saint)|Vincent de Paul]], priest and worker with the poor (d. 1660)
* 29: '''[[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] and All [[Angels]]'''
* 30: [[Jerome]], priest and biblical scholar (d. 420)

=== October ===

* 4: [[Francis of Assisi]], friar and preacher (d. 1226)
* 6: [[William Tyndale]], biblical scholar (d. 1536)
* 12: [[Elizabeth Fry]], prison reformer (d. 1845)
* 15: [[Teresa of Avila]] (d. 1592), teacher
* 16: [[Hugh Latimer]] and [[Nicholas Ridley (martyr)|Nicholas Ridley]], bishops and martyrs (d. 1555)
* 17: [[Ignatius of Antioch]], bishop and martyr (d. ''c.'' 107)
* 18: '''[[Luke the Evangelist|Luke]]''', evangelist and martyr
* 19: [[Henry Martyn]], missionary and Bible translator (d. 1812)
* 23: [[James, brother of Jesus|James of Jerusalem]], brother of the Lord, martyr (d. ''c.'' 62)
* 24: [[United Nations]]
* 28: '''[[Simon the Zealot|Simon]] and [[Saint Jude|Jude]]''', apostles and martyrs
* 31: [[Martin Luther]] and other Continental Reformers

=== November ===

* 1: '''[[All Saints' Day]]'''
* 2: [[All Souls' Day]]
* 3: [[Richard Hooker]], priest and teacher (d. 1600)
* 8: [[Saints in Anglicanism|Saints, martyrs, missionaries and teachers of the Anglican Communion]]
* 10: [[Pope Leo I|Leo of Rome]], bishop and teacher (d. 461)
* 11: [[Martin of Tours]], bishop (d. 397)
* 12: [[Charles Simeon]], evangelist (d. 1836)
* 16: [[Saint Margaret of Scotland|Margaret of Scotland]], queen, helper of the poor (d. 1093)
* 17: [[Hilda of Whitby]], abbess (d. 680)
* 17: [[Hugh of Lincoln]], bishop (d. 1200)
* 19: [[Elisabeth of Hungary]], princess and philanthropist (d. 1231)
* 23: [[Pope Clement I|Clement of Rome]], bishop and martyr (d. ''c.'' 100)
* 25: [[James Noble (clergyman)|James Noble]], first indigenous Australian ordained (d. 1941)
* 30: '''[[Saint Andrew|Andrew]]'''

=== December ===

* 2: [[Frances Perry (philanthropist)|Frances Perry]], founder of the [[Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne]] (d. 1892)
* 3: [[Francis Xavier]], priest and missionary (d. 1552)
* 4: [[Nicholas Ferrar]], deacon and man of prayer (d. 1637)
* 6: [[Saint Nicholas|Nicholas of Myra]], bishop and philanthropist (d. 343)
* 7: [[Ambrose|Ambrose of Milan]], bishop and teacher (d. 397)
* 8: [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception#Anglican Communion|The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary]]
* 8: [[Richard Baxter]], pastor and spiritual writer (d. 1691)
* 13: [[Saint Lucy|Lucy]], martyr and virgin (d. 304)
* 14: [[John of the Cross]], mystic and teacher (d. 1591)
* 21: '''[[Thomas the Apostle|Thomas]]''', martyr (alternative date: 3 July)
* 25: '''[[Christmas]]'''
* 26: '''[[Saint Stephen|Stephen]]''', martyr (alternative date: 3 August)
* 27: '''[[John the Evangelist]]''', apostle and evangelist (alternative date: 6 May)
* 28: '''[[Massacre of the Innocents|Holy Innocents]]'''
* 29: [[Thomas Becket]], archbishop of Canterbury, martyr (d. 1170)
* 30: [[Josephine Butler]], social reformer (d. 1906)
* 31: [[John Wycliffe]], teacher and reformer (d. 1384)


{{Calendar of Saints}}
{{Calendar of Saints}}

Revision as of 10:14, 11 September 2022

The calendar of the Anglican Church of Australia (as published in A Prayer Book for Australia [1995]) follows Anglican tradition with the addition of significant people and events in the church in Australia.

Principal festivals (principal holy days) may not be displaced. Festivals (holy days), if falling on a Sunday, may be displaced to a following weekday. The celebration of lesser festivals (commemorations) is optional.

Principal festivals

Most of these are moveable feasts.

Festivals

Calendar of festivals and saints

Bold type indicates festivals and principal festivals.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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