Calendar of the Church Year

according to the Episcopal Church

January
	1	The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	2	[Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, First Indian Anglican Bishop, Dornakal, 1945]
	3	[William Passavant, Prophetic Witness, 1894]
	4	[Elizabeth Seton, Founder of the American Sisters of Charity, 1821]
	5
	6	The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	7
	8	Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Misisonary, 1969
	9	Julia Chester Emery, 1922
	10	William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
	11
	12	Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
	13	Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367
	14
	15
	16	[Richard Meux Benson, Religious, 1915, and Charles Gore, Bishop of Worcester, of Birmingham, and of Oxford, 1932]
	17	Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356
	18	The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle
	19	Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095
	20	Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250
	21	Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304
	22	Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304
	23	Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893
	24	Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi, 1944
	25	The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
	26	Timothy Titus [and Silas], Companions of Saint Paul
	27	[Lydia, Dorcas, and Phoebe, Witnesses to the Faith]
	28	Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274
	29	[Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer, 1430]
	30
	31	[Juan Bosco (John Bosco), Priest, 1888], also [Samuel Shoemaker, Priest and Evangelist, 1963]

February
	1	Brigid (Bride), 523
	2	The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple
	3	[The Dorchester Chaplains: Lieutenant George Fox, Lieutenant Alexander D. Goode, Lieutenant Clark V. Poling and Lieutenant John P. Washington, 1943]
	4	Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 (new date)
	5	[Roger Williams, 1683, and Anne Hutchinson, 1643, Prophetic Witnesses]
	6	The Martyrs of Japan, 1597 (new date)
	7	Cornelius the Centurion (new date)
	8
	9
	10
	11	[Frances Jane (Fanny) Van Alstyne Crosby, Hymnwriter, 1915]
	12	[Charles Freer Andrews, Priest and “Friend of the Poor” in India, 1940]
	13	Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818
	14	Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885
	15	Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730
	16	[Charles Todd Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, 1898]
	17	Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda & Martyr, 1977
	18	Martin Luther, 1546
	19
	20	[Frederick Douglass, Prophetic Witness, 1895]
	21	[John Henry Newman, Priest and Theologian, 1890]
	22	[Eric Liddell, Missionary to China, 1945]
	23	Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156
	24	Saint Matthias the Apostle
	25	[John Roberts, Priest, 1949]
	26	[Emily Malbone Morgan, Prophetic Witness, 1937]
	27	George Herbert, Priest, 1633
	28	[Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1964, and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1904, Educators]
	29

March
	1	David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544
	2	Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672
	3	John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788
	4	[Paul Cuffee, Witness to the Faith among the Shinnecock, 1812]
	5
	6	[William W. Mayo, 1911, and Charles Menninger, 1953, and Their Sons, Pioneers in Medicine]
	7	Perpetua and Her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202
	8	[Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, 1929]
	9	Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394
	10
	11
	12	Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
	13	James Theodore Holly, bishop of Haiti and Dominican Republic
	14
	15
	16
	17	Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461
	18	Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386
	19	Saint Joseph
	20	Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711 (new date)
	21	Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr, 1556 [new date]
	22	James De Koven, Priest, 1879
	23	Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c. 332
	24	Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, 1980
	25	The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary
	26	[Richard Allen, First Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1831]
	27	Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929
	28	[James Solomon Russell, Priest, 1935]
	29	John Keble, Priest, 1866
	30	[Innocent of Alaska, Bishop, 1879]
	31	John Donne, Priest, 1631

April
	1	Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872
	2	James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876
	3	Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
	4	Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968
	5	[Pandita Mary Ramabai, Prophetic Witness and Evangelist in India, 1922]
	6	[Daniel G. C. Wu, Priest and Missionary among Chinese Americans, 1956]
	7	Tikhon, Patriarch of Russia and Confessor, 1925
	8	William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877 [and Anne Ayers, Religious, 1896]
	9	Dietrich Bonhoeffer, [Theologian and Martyr], 1945
	10	William Law, Priest, 1761; also [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Scientist and Military Chaplain, 1955]
	11	George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878?
	12
	13
	14	[Edward Thomas Demby, 1957, and Henry Beard Delany, 1928, Bishops]
	15	[Damien, Priest and Leper, 1889, and Marianne, Religious, 1918, of Molokai]
	16	[Mary (Molly) Brant (Konwatsijayenni), Witness to the Faith among the Mohawks, 1796]
	17	[Emily Cooper, Deaconess, 1909]
	18
	19	Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012
	20
	21	Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
	22
	23	[George, Soldier and Martyr, c. 304]; also [Toyohiko Kagawa, Prophetic Witness in Japan, 1960]
	24	[Genocide Remembrance]
	25	Saint Mark the Evangelist
	26	[Robert Hunt, Priest and First Chaplain at Jamestown, 1607]
	27	[Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894]
	28
	29	Catherine of Siena, 1380?
	30	[Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Editor and Prophetic Witness, 1879]

May
	1	Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles
	2	Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373
	3
	4	Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
	5
	6
	7	[Harriet Starr Cannon, Religious, 1896]
	8	Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417
	9	Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
	10	[Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Prophetic Witness, 1760]
	11
	12
	13	[Frances Perkins, Public Servant and Prophetic Witness, 1965]
	14
	15	[Junia and Andronicus]
	16	[Martyrs of Sudan]
	17	[William Hobart Hare, Bishop of Niobrara, and of South Dakota, 1909] [Thurgood Marshall, Lawyer and Jurist, 1993]
	18
	19	Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
	20	Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804
	21	[John Eliot, Missionary among the Algonquin, 1690]
	22
	23	[Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543, and Johannes Kepler, 1543, Astronomers]
	24	Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States,1870
	25	Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735
	26	Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605
	27	[Bertha and Ethelbert, Queen and King of Kent, 616]
	28	[John Calvin, Theologian, 1564]
	29
	30	[Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc), Mystic and Soldier, 1431]
	31	The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following the Day of Pentecost.

June
	1	Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167
	2	Blandina and Her Companions, 177
	3	The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886
	4	[John XXIII (Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli), Bishop of Rome, 1963]
	5	Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754
	6	[Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945]
	7	[The Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, 1890]
	8	[Roland Allen, Mission Strategist, 1947]
	9	Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597
	10	Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373
	11	Saint Barnabas the Apostle
	12	Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902
	13	[Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Apologist and Writer, 1936]
	14	Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379
	15	Evelyn Underhill, 1941
	16	[George Berkeley, 1753, and] Joseph Butler, 1752, Bishops and Theologians
	17
	18	Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Mashonaland, 1896
	19
	20
	21
	22	Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304
	23
	24	The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
	25	[James Weldon Johnson, Poet, 1938]
	26	[Isabel Florence Hapgood, Ecumenist and Journalist, 1929]
	27	[Cornelius Hill, Priest and Chief among the Oneida, 1907]
	28	Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202
	29	Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles
	30

July
	1	[Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Prophetic Witness, 1896]; also [Pauli Murray, Priest]
	2	[Walter Rauschenbusch, 1918, Washington Gladden, 1918, and Jacob Riis, 1914, Prophetic Witnesses]
	3
	4	Independence Day
	5
	6	[Jan Hus, Prophetic Witness and Martyr, 1415]
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11	Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Casino, c. 540
	12	[Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala and Ecumenist, 1931]
	13	[Conrad Weiser, Witness to Peace and Reconciliation, 1760]
	14	[Samson Occum, Witness to the Faith in New England, 1792]
	15
	16	[“The Righteous Gentiles”]
	17	William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836
	18	[Bartolomé de las Casas, Friar and Missionary to the Indies, 1566]
	19	Macrina, Monastic and Teacher, 379; also [Adelaide Teague Case, Teacher, 1948]
	20	Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman
	21	[Albert John Luthuli, Prophetic Witness in South Africa, 1967]
	22	Saint Mary Magdalene
	23
	24	Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471
	25	Saint James the Apostle
	26	[Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary]; also [Charles Raymond Barnes, Priest, 1939]
	27	William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909
	28	[Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, George Frederick Handel, 1759, and Henry Purcell, 1695, Composers]
	29	Mary, Martha, [and Lazarus] of Bethany; also [First Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in The Episcopal Church, 1974]
	30	William Wilberforce, 1833, [and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, 1885, Prophetic Witnesses]
	31	Ignatius of Loyola, Priest and Monastic, 1556

August
	1	Joseph of Arimathaea
	2	[Samuel Ferguson, Bishop for West Africa, 1916]
	3	[George Freeman Bragg, Jr., Priest, 1940]; also [William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Sociologist, 1963]
	4
	5	[Albrecht Dürer, 1528, Matthias Grünewald, 1529, and Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1553, Artists]
	6	The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	7	John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866; also [Catherine Winkworth, Poet, 1878]
	8	Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
	9	[Herman of Alaska, Missionary to the Aleut, 1837]
	10	Lawrence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258
	11	Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253
	12	Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910
	13	Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667
	14	Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Seminarian and Martyr, 1965
	15	Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ
	16
	17	[Samuel Johnson, 1772, Timothy Cutler, 1765, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1790, Priests]; also [Baptisms of Manteo & Virginia Dare]
	18	William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918; also [Artemisia Bowden, Educator, 1969]
	19
	20	Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
	21
	22
	23	[Martin de Porres, 1639 and Rosa de Lima, 1617, Witnesses to the Faith in South America]
	24	Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
	25	Louis, King of France, 1270
	26
	27	Thomas Gallaudet, 1902, and Henry Winter Syle, 1890
	28	Augustine, Bishop of Hippo and Theologian, 430; also [Moses the Black, Desert Father and Martyr, c. 400]
	29	[John Bunyan, Writer, 1688]
	30	[Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, and Ecumenist, 1912]
	31	Aidan, 651, and Cuthbert, 687, Bishops of Lindisfarne (new date for Cuthbert)

September
	1	David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
	2	The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942
	3
	4	Paul Jones, 1941; also [Albert Schweitzer, Physician, 1965]
	5	[Gregorio Aglipay, Priest and Founder of the Philippine Independent Church, 1940]
	6
	7	[Elie Naud, Huguenot Witness to the Faith, 1722]
	8
	9	Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878
	10	Alexander Crummel, 1898
	11	[Harry Thacker Burleigh, Composer, 1949]
	12	John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
	13	John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 (new date)
	14	Holy Cross Day
	15	Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258 (new date); and [James Chisholm, Priest, 1855]
	16	Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430
	17	Hildegard of Bingen, 1170
	18	Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882; also [Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat, 1961]
	19	Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
	20	John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871
	21	Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
	22	Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio, and of Illinois, 1852
	23	[Thecla]
	24	[Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, Deaconness, 1947]
	25	Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392
	26	Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626; also [Wilson Carlile, Priest, 1942]
	27	[Vincent de Paul, Religious, and Prophetic Witness, 1660; also Thomas Traherne, Priest, 1674]
	28	[Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, and Margery Kempe, c. 1440, Mystics]
	29	Saint Michael and All Angels
	30	Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420

October
	1	Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530
	2
	3	[George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, and Ecumenist, 1958; also John Raleigh Mott, Evangelist and Ecumenical Pioneer, 1955]
	4	Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226
	5
	6	William Tyndale [and Miles Coverdale], Translators of the Bible, 1536, 1568
	7	[Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Lutheran Pastor in North America, 1787]
	8	[William Dwight Porter Bliss, Priest, 1926, and Richard Theodore Ely, Economist, 1943]
	9	[Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Medical Missionary, 1940]
	10	Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace, 1954
	11	Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
	12
	13
	14	Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906
	15	Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582
	16	Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555, Bishops and Martyrs
	17	Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115
	18	Saint Luke the Evangelist
	19	Henry Martyn, Priest and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812
	20
	21
	22
	23	Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c. 62
	24	[Hiram Hisanori Kano, Priest, 1988]
	25
	26	Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
	27
	28	Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
	29	James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885
	30	[John Wyclif, Priest and Prophetic Witness, 1384]
	31	[Paul Shinji Sasaki, Bishop of Mid-Japan, and of Tokyo, 1946, and Philip Lindel Tsen, Bishop of Honan, China, 1954]

November
	1	All Saints
	2	Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
	3	Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600
	4
	5
	6	William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944
	7	Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
	8	(alternative date for James Theodore Holly: see March 13)
	9
	10	Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461
	11	Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
	12	Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836
	13
	14	Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1796
	15	[Francis Asbury, 1816, and George Whitefield, 1770, Evangelists]
	16	Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093
	17	Hugh, 1200, and Robert Grosseteste, 1253, Bishops of Lincoln (new date for Robert Grosseteste)
	18	Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
	19	Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231
	20	Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
	21	[William Byrd, 1623, John Merbecke, 1585, and Thomas Tallis, 1585, Musicians]
	22	C. S. Lewis, Apologist and spiritual Writer, 1963; also [Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c. 280]
	23	Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100
	24
	25	James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935
	26	[Isaac Watts, Hymnwriter, 1748]
	27
	28	Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885
	29
	30	Saint Andrew the Apostle

December
	1	Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637; also [Charles de Foucauld, Hermit and Martyr in the Sahara, 1916]
	2	Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910
	3	[Francis Xavier, Missionary to the Far East, 1552]
	4	John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760
	5	Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210
	6	Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342
	7	Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397
	8	[Richard Baxter, Pastor and Writer, 1691]
	9
	10	[Thomas Merton, Contemplative and Writer, 1968]
	11
	12
	13	[Lucy (Lucia), Martyr at Syracuse, 304]
	14	[Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591]
	15
	16	[Ralph Adams Cram, 1942, and Richard Upjohn, 1878, Architects, and John LaFarge, Artist, 1910]
	17	[Maria Stewart, 1879, Prophetic Witness]
	18
	19
	20
	21	Saint Thomas the Apostle
	22	[Henry Budd, Priest, 1875]
	23
	24
	25	The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day
	26	Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
	27	Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist
	28	The Holy Innocents
	29	Thomas Becket, 1170
	30	Frances Joseph-Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934
	31	[Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Bishop in the Niger Territories, 1891]

Names in brackets indicate for trial use.

Web Author: Charles Wohlers
Last updated: 23 August 2015
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