The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months of thirty days plus five or six epagomenal days, which comprise a thirteenth month. A gap of seven to eight years between the Ethiopian and Gregorian calendars results from an alternative calculation in determining the date of the Annunciation. The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar that has more in common with the Coptic calendar of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Coptic Catholic Church, but like the Julian calendar, it adds a leap day every four years without exception, and begins the year on 29 August or 30 August in the Julian calendar. Most Protestants in the diaspora have the option of choosing the Ethiopian calendar or the Gregorian calendar for religious holidays, with this option being used given that the corresponding eastern celebration is not a public holiday in the western world. It is the liturgical year for Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians belonging to the Orthodox Tewahedo Churches ( Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church), Eastern Catholic Churches ( Eritrean Catholic Church and Ethiopian Catholic Church), and Eastern Protestant Christian P'ent'ay (Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelical) Churches. It is used as both the civil calendar (in Ethiopia) and an ecclesiastical calendar (in Ethiopia and Eritrea). The Ethiopian calendar ( Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን ኣቆጣጠር Oromo: Akka Lakkofsa Itoophiyaatti Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ), or Ge'ez calendar ( Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን ኣቆጣጠር), is the official calendar in Ethiopia. JSTOR ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'Ethiopian calendar' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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