Revised Julian calendar

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calendar system civil calendar solar calendar

The Revised Julian calendar is a modernized version of the traditional Julian calendar, adopted by several Eastern Orthodox Churches to more closely align fixed feast dates with the Gregorian calendar while retaining the Orthodox Paschalion.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Revised Julian calendar canonical	38
Revised Julian calendar (in some churches)	3
Julian and Revised Julian calendars (liturgical use)	1
Julian calendar (Revised)	1
Julian calendar or Revised Julian calendar for church feasts	1
New Julian calendar	1
Revised Julian Easter calculation	1
Revised Julian calendar (civil-ecclesiastical in Serbia)	1
Revised Julian calendar (for fixed feasts)	1
Revised Julian calendar (for liturgical purposes in Greece)	1
Revised Julian calendar (for some feasts)	1
Revised Julian calendar (in some jurisdictions)	1
Revised Julian calendar (liturgical)	1
Revised Julian calendar (liturgical, in practice for many parishes)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T191419 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Revised Julian calendar
Context triple: [Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, liturgicalCalendar, Revised Julian calendar]

A. Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is an ancient solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE, historically used throughout Europe and still employed by some Eastern Christian churches for liturgical purposes.
B. Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
The Gregorian calendar (Western churches) is the internationally used solar dating system introduced in 1582 that most Western Christian churches follow for determining liturgical dates and feasts.
C. Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
D. Metonic cycle
The Metonic cycle is a 19-year astronomical period after which the phases of the Moon recur on the same days of the solar year, forming the basis for many lunisolar calendars.
E. Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Revised Julian calendar
Target entity description: The Revised Julian calendar is a modernized version of the traditional Julian calendar, adopted by several Eastern Orthodox Churches to more closely align fixed feast dates with the Gregorian calendar while retaining the Orthodox Paschalion.

A. Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is an ancient solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE, historically used throughout Europe and still employed by some Eastern Christian churches for liturgical purposes.
B. Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
The Gregorian calendar (Western churches) is the internationally used solar dating system introduced in 1582 that most Western Christian churches follow for determining liturgical dates and feasts.
C. Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar used primarily for Jewish religious observances, holidays, and the determination of ceremonial dates.
D. Metonic cycle
The Metonic cycle is a 19-year astronomical period after which the phases of the Moon recur on the same days of the solar year, forming the basis for many lunisolar calendars.
E. Kislev
Kislev is a late autumn/early winter month in the Hebrew calendar traditionally associated with the festival of Hanukkah.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	calendar system ⓘ civil calendar ⓘ solar calendar ⓘ
adoptedBy	Albanian Orthodox Church ⓘ linked to: Orthodox Church of Albania Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese ⓘ linked to: Antiochian Orthodox Church Bulgarian Orthodox Church ⓘ Church of Cyprus ⓘ linked to: Orthodox Church of Cyprus Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ⓘ linked to: Patriarchate of Constantinople Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia ⓘ Polish Orthodox Church ⓘ Romanian Orthodox Church ⓘ several Eastern Orthodox Churches ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Milanković calendar ⓘ New Julian calendar ⓘ linked to: Revised Julian calendar
averageYearError	about 2 seconds per year relative to the tropical year ⓘ
basedOn	traditional Julian calendar ⓘ
category	Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar ⓘ linked to: Byzantine liturgical calendar
coincidesWith	Gregorian calendar from 1900 to 2799 ⓘ
designedToAlignWith	Gregorian calendar ⓘ linked to: Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
developedAt	Pan-Orthodox Congress of 1923 ⓘ
differsFrom	Gregorian calendar after year 2800 ⓘ
easterCalculationBasedOn	Julian calendar ⓘ Orthodox Paschalion ⓘ
follows	solar year ⓘ
introducedInYear	1923 ⓘ
leapYearRule	century years divisible by 900 are leap years only if remainder is 200 or 600 ⓘ every year divisible by 4 is a leap year except some century years ⓘ
moreAccurateThan	Julian calendar ⓘ
notAdoptedBy	Armenian Apostolic Church ⓘ Coptic Orthodox Church ⓘ Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ Georgian Orthodox Church ⓘ Jerusalem Patriarchate ⓘ linked to: Orthodox Church of Jerusalem Russian Orthodox Church ⓘ Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ Syriac Orthodox Church ⓘ
notUsedFor	calculation of Easter in Eastern Orthodoxy ⓘ
proposedBy	Milutin Milanković ⓘ
purpose	to modernize the Julian calendar ⓘ to reduce drift of fixed feasts relative to the seasons ⓘ
regionUsed	parts of Eastern Europe ⓘ parts of the Middle East ⓘ
retains	Orthodox Paschalion ⓘ
similarAccuracyTo	Gregorian calendar ⓘ linked to: Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
usedBy	some Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine rite ⓘ
usesFor	fixed feasts ⓘ saints' days ⓘ
yearLength	365.242222 days ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (53)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople → liturgicalCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Gregorian calendar (Western churches) → contrastedWith → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Byzantine Rite → calendarSystem → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Great Feast in Eastern Christianity → calendarSystem → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Greek Orthodox Church → calendarUsed → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Romanian Orthodox Church → calendarUsed → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Bulgarian Orthodox Church → calendarUsed → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Antiochian Orthodox Church → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (in some jurisdictions) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Orthodox Church of Cyprus → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (for fixed feasts) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Orthodox Church of Albania → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Orthodox Church in America → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Revised Julian calendar → alsoKnownAs → New Julian calendar ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Julian calendar → basisOf → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Patriarchate of Constantinople → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Belarusian Greek Catholic Church → followsLiturgicalCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church → followsLiturgicalCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Eastern Christianity → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Polish Orthodox Church → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (for some feasts) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

OCA → calendarUsage → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Byzantine liturgical calendar → alsoUses → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Macedonian Orthodox Church → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Orthodox Paschalion → contrastsWith → Revised Julian Easter calculation ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Milanković calendar → alsoKnownAs → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Nativity Fast → calendarSystem → Revised Julian calendar (in some churches) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Ukrainian Orthodox Church → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Metropolis of Denver → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Orthodox Church of Ukraine → calendarUsed → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Archeparchy of Lviv → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (liturgical) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (liturgical, in practice for many parishes) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Greek Catholics → usesLiturgicalCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Midnight Office of Pascha → calendarContext → Revised Julian calendar (in some churches) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Orthodox churches → liturgicalCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Diocese of Athens → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (for liturgical purposes in Greece) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Saturday of Lazarus → calendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

subject linked to: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)

Eastern Orthodox countries → culturalInfluence → Julian calendar or Revised Julian calendar for church feasts ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Church of Crete → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Feast of the Apostle Philip → calendarBasis → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral → followsCalendar → Julian and Revised Julian calendars (liturgical use) ⓘ

subject linked to: cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Japanese Orthodox Church → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas → followsCalendar → Julian calendar (Revised) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA → followsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Belgrade and Karlovci → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar (civil-ecclesiastical in Serbia) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

Old Calendarist movement → rejectsCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Eparchy of Mukachevo → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi → usesCalendar → Revised Julian calendar ⓘ

Greek Rite → calendarUsage → Revised Julian calendar (in some churches) ⓘ

linked to: Revised Julian calendar

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