Russian Orthodox Christmas 2025

Russian Orthodox Christmas 2025. 8 march (friday) international women’s day: A large majority of russia’s 140 million people identify as members of the russian orthodox church, which calculates the date of christmas based on the julian calendar instead of the gregorian calendar used in the west.

In contrast to the regular christmas day, orthodox christmas day is all about seeking peace and calm. But the russian orthodox church, the largest communion in eastern orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing christmas on jan.