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Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days, is tightly tangled up in the country’s war with Russia. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has taken the position that the Julian calendar used in ...

Metropolitan Epiphanius, center right, and priests deliver an Orthodox Christmas service inside the nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra Cathedral of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.

Why Christmas in Ukraine may be celebrated on Dec. 25 or Jan. 7 Even the day that Christmas falls on is a matter of vigorous ... And by the new calendar, it happens to be on the 7 of ...

The newer Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which received recognition from the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 2019, observed Christmas on Dec. 25. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church — which ...

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When Ukraine was under the rule of Catholic monarchs from the mid-1500s until 1795, holding to the Julian calendar was a statement of Orthodox piety and Ukrainian nationalism. At the time, to adopt ...

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine actually broke away from the Moscow church in 2018, but it continued to hold Christmas services on January 6 and 7. This July, President Zelenskyy moved the legal ...

Ukraine has shifted Christmas from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, further distancing itself from Russian tradition. Listen Share By Joanna Kakissis Dec 24, 2023 ( All Things Considered / NPR) ...