FEASTS ON THE 2026 LITURGICAL CALENDAR

January
06  – Nativity and Epiphany
13  – Feast of the Naming of Jesus Christ
14  – Birth of John the Baptist
31 – Saint Sarkis

February
12- Saint Vartanants
14 – Presentation of the Lord to the Temple
15 – Great Lent

March
11 – Median Day of Lent
21 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s Entry to the pit
31 – Palm Sunday

April
5  – Easter
24 – Holy Martyrs’ Day of the 1915 Armenian Genocide

May
3  – Apparition of the Holy Cross
14 – Ascension
24 – Pentecost

June
1 – Saints Hripsimiants
2 – Saints Gayaniants
6 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s Delivery from the pit
7 – Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin
20 – Discovery of the Relics of Saint Gregory the Illuminator
25 – Saint Sahag and Saint Mesrob

July
12  – Feast of the Transfiguration

August
16 – Assumption of the Holy Mother of God

September
3– Saint John the Forerunner
13 – Exaltation of the Holy Cross
26 – Saint George
27 – Holy Cross of Varak

October
10 – Holy Translators
25 – Discovery of the Cross
31  – Feast of All Saints

November
7 – Holy Archangels Gabriel and Michael
22 – Start of 50 days Lent to Christmas
28 – Saints Thaddeus and Bartholomew

December
12 – Saint Hagop (James) of Nisibis
24 – Saint David the Prophet
26 – Saint Stephen the Protomartyr
28 – Saint Peter and Saint Paul