ecclesiastical calendar

[ ih-kleezee-astikuhl kaluhnder ]

noun

1. a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
2. Also called church calendar. a calendar of the Christian year, indicating the days and seasons for fasts and festivals.

Example Sentences

Yes: on the medieval ecclesiastical calendar, food intake was restricted in one way or another for more than a hundred and eighty days per year.

From The New Yorker

The high day of the ecclesiastical calendar is Easter.

From Project Gutenberg

Unlike Handel’s “Messiah” and Bach’s great Passions, the formal and spiritual models Tippett emulated, his oratorio fills no particular slot in the ecclesiastical calendar.

From New York Times

Copernicus parries with an explanation that their work will systemize the ecclesiastical calendar, allowing the church “to calculate the correct date of Easter each year.”

From New York Times

Tens of thousands of British teens flock to such festivals and they have become an established fixture of the ecclesiastical calendar.

From The Guardian