Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)

The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and influential people of the Christian faith. The usage of the term "saint" is similar to Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Those in high church or Anglo-Catholic traditions may explicitly invoke saints as intercessors in prayer, though saints are mainly recognized in the Episcopal Church as merely examples in history of good Christian people.

The Episcopal Church publishes Lesser Feasts and Fasts, which contains feast days for the various men and women the Church wishes to honor. This book is updated every three years, when notable people can be added to the liturgical calendar.

This is the calendar of saints found in the Book of Common Prayer and Lesser Feasts and Fasts; the relevant official resources of the Episcopal Church. This list reflects changes made at the 2009 General Convention. It lists provisional changes made in the new official list of feasts, Holy Women, Holy Men.

There is no single calendar for the various churches making up the Anglican Communion; each makes its own calendar suitable for its local situation. As a result, the calendar here contains a number of figures important in the history of the church in the United States. Calendars in different provinces will focus on figures more important to those different countries. Different provinces often borrow important figures from each other's calendars as the international importance of different figures become more prominent. In this way the calendar of the Episcopal Church has importance beyond just the immediate purpose of supporting the liturgy of the American church. It is one of the key sources of the calendar for the international daily office Oremus.

Because of its relation to the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, the Episcopal Church in the Philippines follows this calendar rather closely.

Ranking of feasts

The Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer identifies four categories of feasts: Principal Feasts, other Feasts of our Lord (including Sundays), other Major Feasts, and minor feasts. Two major fast days are also listed (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In addition to these categories, further distinctions are made between feasts, to determine the precedence of feasts used when more than one feast falls on the same day. In addition, Lesser Feasts and Fasts gives further rules for the relative ranking of feasts and fasts. These rules of precedence all establish a ranking, from most to least important, as follows:

• PRINCIPAL FEASTS
• The Feasts of the Holy Name, the Presentation, and Transfiguration
• Sundays through the year
• Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
• Feasts of our Lord
• Other Major Feasts
• Weekdays of Lent
• Minor Feasts

Days of fasting

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are appointed as fast days. Lesser fast days, called "days of special observance", are all the weekdays of Lent and every Friday in the year, with the exception that fasting is never observed during the Easter or Christmas seasons, or on Feasts of our Lord. The Episcopal Church does not prescribe the specific manner of observance of these days.

Baptismal feasts

The Great Vigil of Easter, Pentecost, All Saints' Day, and The Baptism of our Lord, are appointed as baptismal feasts. It is preferred that baptism be reserved for those occasions.

Calendar

Principal Feasts are in BOLD, ALL CAPS. Feasts of our Lord are in bold italics. Other Major Feasts and Fasts are in bold.

Movable days

These celebrations can occur on different dates depending on the date of Easter, which has no fixed date. In addition, every Sunday in the year is observed as a "feast of our Lord".

• Ash Wednesday
• Good Friday
• EASTER DAY
• ASCENSION DAY
• DAY OF PENTECOST
• The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549, observed on a weekday following Pentecost
• TRINITY SUNDAY
• Thanksgiving Day

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
• 6 THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
• 8 Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary, 1969
• 9 Julia Chester Emery, 1922
• 10 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
• 12 Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
• 13 Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367
• 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, First Woman Priest in the Anglican Communion, 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 Charles I of England, King and Martyr, 1649.
• 31 Juan Bosco, Priest, 1888. Samuel Shoemaker, Priest and Evangelist, 1963

February

• 1 Brigid (Bride), Abbess, 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
• 5 Roger Williams, 1683, and Anne Hutchinson, 1643, Prophetic Witnesses
• 6 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597
• 7 Cornelius the Centurion
• 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, and Martyr, 1977
• 18 Martin Luther, 1546
• 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 John Cassian, Abbot at Marseilles, 433

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
• 6 William W. Mayo, 1911, and Charles Menninger, 1953, and Their Sons, Pioneers in Medicine
• 7 Perpetua & Felicity and their Companion Martyrs, Martyrs at Carthage, 203
• 8 Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, 1929
• 9 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394
• 12 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
• 13 James Theodore Holly, bishop of Haiti and Dominican Republic
• 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
• 21 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr, 1556
• 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
• 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., Pastor, 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. Anne Ayres, Religious, 1896
• 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian and Martyr, 1945
• 10 William Law, Priest, 1761. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Scientist and Military Chaplain, 1955
• 11 George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878
• 12 Adoniram Judson, Missionary to Burma, 1850
• 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
• 19 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012
• 21 Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
• 22 John Muir, Naturalist and Writer, 1914, and Hudson Stuck, Priest and Environmentalist, 1920
• 23 George, Soldier and Martyr, c. 304. 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
• 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
• 4 Monnica of Hippo, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
• 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
• 13 Frances Perkins, Public Servant and Prophetic Witness, 1965
• 16 Martyrs of Sudan
• 17 William Hobart Hare, Bishop of Niobrara, and of South Dakota, 1909
• 19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
• 20 Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804
• 21 John Eliot, Missionary among the Algonquin, 1690
• 23 Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543, and Johannes Kepler, 1630, 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
• 30 Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc), Mystic and Soldier, 1431
• 31 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

June

• 1 Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167
• 2 The Martyrs of Lyons, 177
• 3 The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886
• 4 Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe 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, Theologian and Mystic 1941
• 16 George Berkeley, 1753, and Joseph Butler, 1752, Bishops and Theologians
• 18 Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Rhodesia, 1896
• 22 Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304
• 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 Lyon, c. 202
• 29 Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles

July

• 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Prophetic Witness, 1896
• 2 Walter Rauschenbusch, 1918, Washington Gladden, 1918, and Jacob Riis, 1914, Prophetic Witnesses
• 4 Independence Day
• 6 Jan Hus, Prophetic Witness and Martyr, 1415
• 11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540
• 12 Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala and Ecumenist, 1931
• 13 Conrad Weiser, Witness to Peace and Reconciliation, 1760
• 14 Samson Occom, Witness to the Faith in New England, 1792
• 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. 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
• 24 Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471
• 25 Saint James the Apostle
• 26 The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary (traditionally identified as Anne and Joachim)
• 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
• 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 David Ferguson, Missionary Bishop for West Africa, 1916
• 3 George Freeman Bragg, Jr., Priest, 1940. W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, 1963
• 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. 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 Witness for Civil Rights, 1965
• 15 Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ
• 17 Samuel Johnson, 1772, Timothy Cutler, 1765, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1790, Priests
• 18 William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918
• 20 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
• 23 Martin de Porres, 1639, Rosa de Lima, 1617, and Toribio de Mogrovejo, 1606, Witnesses to the Faith in South America
• 24 Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
• 25 Louis, King of France, 1270 (also in the Philippines, alternative commemoration for Charles Henry Brent)
• 27 Thomas Gallaudet, 1902, and Henry Winter Syle, 1890
• 28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430. 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, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687

September

• 1 David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
• 2 The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942
• 3 Prudence Crandall, Teacher and Prophetic Witness, 1890
• 4 Paul Jones, 1941
• 5 Gregorio Aglipay, Priest and Founder of the Philippine Independent Church, 1940
• 7 Elie Naud, Huguenot Witness to the Faith, 1722
• 8 Nativity of Mary, Søren Kierkegaard, Teacher and Philosopher, 1855. N. F. S. Grundtvig, Bishop and Hymnwriter, 1872
• 9 Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878
• 10 Alexander Crummell, 1898
• 11 Harry Thacker Burleigh, Composer, 1949
• 12 John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
• 13 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407
• 14 Holy Cross Day
• 15 Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258. James Chisholm, Priest, 1855
• 16 Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430
• 17 Hildegard, 1170
• 18 Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882
• 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
• 25 Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392
• 26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626. Wilson Carlile, Priest, 1942
• 27 Vincent de Paul, Religious, and Prophetic Witness, 1660. 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 Remegius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530
• 3 George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, and Ecumenist, 1958. John Raleigh Mott, Evangelist and Ecumenical Pioneer, 1955
• 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226
• 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
• 14 Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906
• 15 Teresa of Ávila, Nun, 1582
• 16 Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555/
• 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. William Carey, Missionary to India, 1834
• 23 Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c. 62
• 26 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
• 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
• 6 William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944
• 7 Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
• 10 Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461
• 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
• 12 Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836
• 14 Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784
• 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
• 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 Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Spiritual Writer, 1963
• 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100
• 25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935
• 26 Isaac Watts, Hymnwriter, 1748
• 28 Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885
• 30 Saint Andrew the Apostle

December

• 1 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637
• 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
• 10 Karl Barth, Pastor and Theologian, 1968. Thomas Merton, Contemplative and Writer, 1968
• 13 Lucy (Lucia), Martyr at Syracuse, 304
• 14 Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591
• 15 John Horden, Bishop and Missionary in Canada, 1893. Robert McDonald, Priest, 1913
• 16 Ralph Adams Cram, 1942, and Richard Upjohn, 1878, Architects, and John LaFarge, Artist, 1910
• 17 William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, and Maria Stewart, 1879, Prophetic Witnesses
• 19 Lillian Trasher, Missionary in Egypt, 1961
• 21 Saint Thomas the Apostle
• 22 Charlotte Digges (Lottie) Moon, Missionary in China, 1912. Henry Budd, Priest, 1875
• 25 THE NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST
• 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

See also

• Anglican Calendar of Saints

External links

• Calendar of the Church Year, according to the Episcopal Church