Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Australia)
The calendar of the Anglican Church of Australia follows Anglican tradition with the addition of significant people and events in the church in Australia.
Principal festivals may not be displaced. Festivals, if falling on a Sunday, may be displaced to a following weekday. The celebration of lesser festivals is optional.
Principal festivals
Most of these are moveable feasts.- Easter
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Trinity Sunday
- All Saints' Day, 1 November
- Christmas, 25 December
- Epiphany, 6 January
- Baptism of Jesus
- Ash Wednesday
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
Festivals
- The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, 1 January
- The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 2 February
- Matthias, 24 February or 14 May
- Joseph, 19 March
- The Annunciation to Mary, 25 March
- Mark the Evangelist, 25 April
- Philip and James, 1 May or 3 May
- Barnabas, 11 June
- The Birth of John the Baptist, 24 June
- Peter and Paul, 29 June
- Mary Magdalene, 22 July
- James, 25 July
- Transfiguration of Jesus, 6 August
- Mary, 15 August
- Bartholomew, 24 August
- Matthew, 21 September
- Michael and All Angels, 29 September
- Luke, 18 October
- Simon and Jude, 28 October
- Andrew, 30 November
- Thomas, 21 December or 3 July
- Stephen, 26 December or 3 August
- John the Evangelist, 27 December or 6 May
- Holy Innocents, 28 December
Calendar of festivals and saints
January
- 1: The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus
- 2: Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus, bishops and teachers
- 2: Eliza Marsden Hassall, missionary
- 6: Epiphany
- 10: William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr
- 13: Hilary of Poitiers, bishop and teacher
- 14: Sava, archbishop
- 17: Anthony the Great, abbot
- 18: Confession of Peter
- 21: Agnes, martyr
- 22: Vincent of Saragossa, deacon and martyr
- 24: Companions of Paul, including Timothy, Titus and Silas
- 25: Conversion of Paul
- 26: Australia Day
- 27: John Chrysostom, bishop and teacher
- 28: Thomas Aquinas, theologian
- 30: Charles I of England, King of England, martyr
February
- 2: The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
- 3: First Anglican service at Sydney Cove
- 4: Ansgar, bishop
- 5: Martyrs of Japan
- 14: Cyril and Methodius, missionaries
- 20: William Grant Broughton, first bishop of Australia
- 23: Polycarp, bishop and martyr
- 24: Matthias
- 27: George Herbert, priest and poet
March
- 1: David, bishop
- 2: Chad, bishop
- 7: Perpetua and her companions, martyrs
- 8: John of God, worker among the sick and poor
- 9: Sister Emma, Superior of the Society of the Sacred Advent
- 17: Patrick, bishop and missionary
- 18: Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop and teacher
- 19: Joseph
- 20: Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, bishop and missionary
- 21: Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr and liturgist
- 24: Paul Couturier, ecumenist
- 25: The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 29: John Keble, priest
April
- 3: Richard of Chichester, bishop
- 6: Frederic Barker, bishop of Sydney
- 8: Georgiana Molloy, church leader and botanist
- 9: William Law, priest and teacher
- 9: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian
- 11: George Augustus Selwyn, missionary, bishop of New Zealand
- 21: Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, teacher
- 23: George, martyr
- 24: Óscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador
- 25: Mark
- 25: ANZAC Day
- 29: Catherine of Siena, spiritual teacher
May
- 1: Philip and James, apostles and martyrs
- 2: Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, teacher
- 6: John
- 8: Julian of Norwich, mystic
- 14: Matthias
- 19: Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury
- 24: John and Charles Wesley, evangelists
- 25: Bede of Jarorw, priest and teacher
- 26: Augustine of Canterbury, missionary and bishop
- 27 May to 3 June: Week of Prayer for Reconciliation
- 31: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
June
- 1: Justin Martyr
- 3: Martyrs of Uganda
- 3: Janani Luwum, archbishop of Uganda
- 3: John XXIII, bishop of Rome, reformer
- 5: Boniface of Mainz, bishop and martyr
- 9: Columba of Iona, abbot and missionary
- 11: Barnabas, apostle and martyr
- 13: Anthony of Padua, missionary and preacher
- 15: Evelyn Underhill, spiritual writer
- 22: Alban, martyr
- 24: The Birth of John the Baptist
- 27: Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and teacher
- 28: Irenaeus, bishop and teacher
- 29: Peter and Paul, apostles and martyrs
July
- 1: first missionaries to the Torres Strait
- 3: Thomas, martyr
- 6: John Fisher and Thomas More, martyrs
- 11: Benedict of Nursia, abbot
- 13: Sydney James Kirkby, bishop
- 22: Mary Magdalene
- 25: James, apostle and martyr
- 26: Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 29: Mary and Martha of Bethany
- 30: William Wilberforce, social reformer
- 31: Joseph of Arimathea
- 31: Ignatius of Loyola, priest, founder of the Society of Jesus
August
- 1: Holy men and women of the Old Testament
- 3: Stephen, martyr
- 4: Jean Vianney, parish priest
- 5: Oswald of Northumbria, king and martyr
- 6: Transfiguration of Jesus
- 8: Dominic, priest and friar
- 9: Mary Sumner, founder of the Mothers' Union
- 10: Laurence, deacon and martyr
- 11: Clare of Assisi
- 11: John Henry Newman, cardinal and theologian
- 13: Jeremy Taylor, bishop and spiritual writer
- 14: Twentieth-century martyrs, including Maximilian Kolbe, Maria Skobtsova and Martin Luther King, Jr
- 15: Mary, mother of the Lord
- 20: Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot and teacher
- 24: Bartholomew, apostle and martyr
- 27: Monica, mother of Augustine
- 28: Augustine of Hippo, bishop and teacher
- 29: Beheading of John the Baptist
- 31: John Bunyan, preacher and spiritual writer
- 31: Aidan of Lindisfarne, bishop and missionary
September
- 2: Martyrs of New Guinea
- 3: Gregory of Rome, bishop and teacher
- 3: Eliza Darling, social reformer in New South Wales
- 8: Birth of Mary, mother of the Lord
- 11: Mother Esther, founder of the Community of the Holy Name
- 13: Cyprian of Carthage, bishop and martyr
- 14: Holy Cross
- 15: John Oliver Feetham, bishop and bush brother
- 16: Ninian of Galloway, bishop and missionary
- 17: Hildegard of Bingen, abbess and spiritual writer
- 18: John Ramsden Wollaston, priest and missionary of Western Australia
- 20: John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, martyr
- 21: Matthew
- 25: Sergius of Moscow, abbot and teacher
- 26: Lancelot Andrewes, bishop of Winchester
- 27: Vincent de Paul, priest and worker with the poor
- 29: Michael and All Angels
- 30: Jerome, priest and biblical scholar
October
- 4: Francis of Assisi, friar and preacher
- 6: William Tyndale, biblical scholar
- 12: Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
- 15: Teresa of Avila, teacher
- 16: Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, bishops and martyrs
- 17: Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
- 18: Luke, evangelist and martyr
- 19: Henry Martyn, missionary and Bible translator
- 23: James of Jerusalem, brother of the Lord, martyr
- 24: United Nations
- 28: Simon and Jude, apostles and martyrs
- 31: Martin Luther and other Continental Reformers
November
- 1: All Saints' Day
- 2: All Souls' Day
- 3: Richard Hooker, priest and teacher
- 8: Saints, martyrs, missionaries and teachers of the Anglican Communion
- 10: Leo of Rome, bishop and teacher
- 11: Martin of Tours, bishop
- 12: Charles Simeon, evangelist
- 16: Margaret of Scotland, queen, helper of the poor
- 17: Hilda of Whitby, abbess
- 17: Hugh of Lincoln, bishop
- 19: Elisabeth of Hungary, princess and philanthropist
- 23: Clement of Rome, bishop and martyr
- 25: James Noble, first indigenous Australian ordained
- 30: Andrew
December
- 2: Frances Perry, founder of the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
- 3: Francis Xavier, priest and missionary
- 4: Nicholas Ferrar, deacon and man of prayer
- 6: Nicholas of Myra, bishop and philanthropist
- 7: Ambrose of Milan, bishop and teacher
- 8: The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 8: Richard Baxter, pastor and spiritual writer
- 13: Lucy, martyr and virgin
- 14: John of the Cross, mystic and teacher
- 21: Thomas, martyr
- 25: Christmas
- 26: Stephen, martyr
- 27: John the Evangelist, apostle and evangelist
- 28: Holy Innocents
- 29: Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr
- 30: Josephine Butler, social reformer
- 31: John Wycliffe, teacher and reformer