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Zach Varghese's avatar

Also note that the Qleedo app (planning a fully revamped release soon) has a robust calendar based on the seminal work of Thomas Joseph and Simon Skaria

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Abun d'Bashmayo's avatar

The problem is that the Malankara Syriac Orthodox and our calendars are different. So the question is: which one are they using as a baseline?

See also:

"In the past, the Syriac Orthodox calendar was based entirely on the Julian calendar. Even though, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Mor Ignatius Ni`matallah (d. c. 1587), a learned mathematician and astronomer, was a member of Pope Gregory XIII's commission on the reform of the calendar (after his forced abdication by Islamic extremists and escape to Rome), the Gregorian calendar was not adopted in the Syriac Orthodox Church until the 20th century. In 1955, the immovable feasts came to be celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar (with the exception of the Holy Land where the Syriac Orthodox rights to the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem for Christmas services were traditionally restricted to January 6th). The Julian calendar continues to determine the observation of the Great Lent and Week of Passion. The Church in Malankara switched entirely to the Gregorian calendar in 1953, following Encyclical No. 620 from Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem I, dt. December 1952." https://syriacorthodoxresources.org/Calendar/

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Zach Varghese's avatar

Yes certainly. Perhaps we can curate and offer both. The value is a common understanding of the saints and festivals of each region. All superimposed on the Gregorian calendar. Qleedo has a function to display both Julian and Gregorian calendars… but in the revamp it may not make the first iteration.

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T M Varghese's avatar

Dear ..

You know the Orthodox people in India .

I got your self from one tweet .

Happy to know each other .

Rgds

Varghese

tmvarghese1@gmail.com

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Eldo's avatar

Good work!

I have also seen the below google calender for Syriac Orthodox

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=3fsi4ifmcrj6h523v9ft612rq8@group.calendar.google.com

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Zach Varghese's avatar

Could you share the source of this calendar? Cheers!

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Abun d'Bashmayo's avatar

If this is the same one I first found, it was created by Dn. Jobin Chacko. We have exchanged messages.

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