In May 2023, Christians of the Eastern Rite will celebrate the Ascension of the Lord. Also, the last month of spring is the day of memory of St. George the Victorious, the day of memory of John the Theologian and other religious holidays..

List of holidays in May according to the church calendar.

Believers in May will celebrate the following holidays:.

May 1 - Memorial Day of St. John of Thessalonica;

May 2 - Memorial Day of St. John the Pechernik;

May 3 - Memorial Day of St. Theodore Trikhina;

May 4 - the day of memory of the holy martyr Januarius and others;

May 5 - Memorial Day of St. Theodore Sikiot and Vitaly;

May 6 - Memorial Day of the Great Martyr George the Victorious; Memorial Day of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God;

May 7 - the day of memory of the martyr Savva Stratilat;

May 8 - Memorial Day of the Apostle the Evangelist Mark;

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May 9 - Holy Martyr Basil, Bishop of Amasia;

May 10 - Mid-Pentecost; commemoration of the Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, relative of the Lord;

May 11 - the day of memory of the apostles Jason and Sosipater, as well as the martyr Maximus, Dada and others;

May 12 is the day of remembrance of the nine martyrs in Kyzice, the Monk Memnon, the Wonderworker;

May 13 - Memorial Day of the Apostle James, brother of St. John the Theologian;

May 14 - Hieromartyr Macarius, Metropolitan of Kyiv;

May 15 - Memorial Day of St. Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria; transfer of the relics of the martyrs of the noble princes Boris and Gleb;

May 16 - the day of memory of the martyrs Timothy and Maura, as well as the Monk Theodosius of the Caves;

May 17 - Memorial Day of the Martyr Pelagia;

May 18 - the day of memory of the martyr Irene, as well as the Monk Nicephorus, hegumen of Media;

May 19 - the day of memory of the righteous Job the long-suffering;

May 20 - the day of memory of the martyr Akakiy and the appearance of the Cross of the Lord in the sky over Jerusalem;

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May 21 - Memorial Day of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian;

May 22 - transfer of the relics of Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nikolai Teply);

May 23 - Memorial Day of the Apostle Simon the Zealot;

May 24 - Memorial Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius;

May 25 - Ascension of the Lord; Memorial Day of Saints Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus and Herman, Patriarch of Jerusalem;

May 26 - Memorial Day of the Martyr Glykeria;

May 27 - Memorial Day of the Martyr Isidore;

May 28 - Memorial Day of St. Pachomius the Great;

May 29 is the day of memory of the blind-born Saint Theodore the Sanctified;

May 30 - Memorial Day of the Apostle Andronicus and others with him;

May 31 - the day of memory of the martyrs Theodore, Peter, Dionysius, Andrew.

Earlier we wrote that the UGCC published a list of holidays in the new style from September. The church year will begin on September 1 and all holidays will be shifted by two weeks.