Lent-Easter

Ascension Day

Ash Wednesday

Easter Day

Easter Eve - Holy Saturday

Good Friday

Maundy Thursday

Mothering Sunday

Palm Sunday

Trinity Sunday

Whitsunday - The Day of Pentecost

January

1

Naming of Jesus

2

Seraphim of Sarov

3

Gladys Aylward

5

Eve of the Epiphany

6

Epiphany of our Lord Jesus Christ

13

Hilary of Poitiers

14

Sava

17

Antony of Egypt

21

Agnes

22

Vincent

25

Conversion of St Paul

26

Timothy and Titus

27

John Chrysostom

28

Thomas Aquinas

30

King Charles of England

February

1

Brigid of Ireland

2

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

3

Anskar

5

Martyrs of Japan

6

Waitangi Day

14

Cyril and Methodius

16

Holy Innocents

17

Janani Luwum

18

Martin Luther

20

Saints and Martyrs of Africa

22

Confession of St Peter

23

Polycarp

24

Matthias the Apostle (alternative date)

27

George Herbert

March

1

David

2

Carl Sylvius Völkner and Mokomoko

3

John and Charles Wesley

7

Perpetua and her Companions

12

Gregory the Great

12

Kereopa and Te Manihera

17

Patrick

18

Cyril of Jerusalem

19

Joseph of Nazareth

20

Cuthbert

21

Thomas Cranmer

22

Thomas Ken

24

Gabriel

25

Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary

29

John Keble

April

1

Frederick Denison Maurice

3

Richard of Chichester

4

Martin Luther King

8

Saints and Martyrs of the Americas

9

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10

William Law

11

George Augustus Selwyn

21

Anselm

23

George

24

Seven Martyrs of the Melanesian Brotherhood

24

Toyohiko Kagawa

25

Anzac Day

26

Mark the Evangelist

29

Catherine of Siena

29

Heni Te Kiri Karamu

May

1

Philip and James, Apostles

2

Athanasius

6

John the Evangelist

8

Julian of Norwich

9

Gregory of Nazianzus

11

Ruatara

12

Samuel Marsden

13

Ihaia Te Ahu

14

Matthias the Apostle

14

Ngakuku

15

Piripi Taumataakura

16

Te Wera Hauraki

17

Wiremu Te Tauri

18

Tamihana Te Rauparaha

19

Dunstan

22

Rota Waitoa

23

Frederick Augustus Bennett

24

Mother Edith

25

Bede of Jarrow

26

Augustine of Canterbury

30

Apolo Kivebulaya

31

Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth

June

1

Justin

3

Martyrs of Uganda

5

Boniface

6

Ini Kopuria

9

Columba of Iona

11

Barnabas the Apostle

13

Antony of Padua

14

Basil the Great

15

Evelyn Underhill

19

Sadhu Sundar Singh

21

Henare Wiremu Taratoa

22

Alban

23

Wiremu Tamihana

24

John the Baptist

28

Irenaeus

29

Peter and Paul, Apostles

July

3

Thomas the Apostle

4

Samuel Azariah

6

Thomas More

11

Benedict of Nursia

13

Silas

15

Swithun

16

Henry Williams

22

Mary Magdalene

25

Christopher

25

James and John, Apostles

26

Anne

28

Mary and Martha of Bethany

29

William Wilberforce

30

Saints and Martyrs of Europe

31

Joseph of Arimathea

August

2

Chad

3

Stephen

4

John Baptist Vianney, Curé d'Ars

5

Oswald

6

Transfiguration of the Beloved Son

7

Holy Name of Jesus

8

Dominic

9

Mary Sumner

10

Laurence

11

Clare of Assisi

13

Florence Nightingale

14

Maximilian Kolbe

15

Mary, the Mother of Jesus

16

Holy Women of the Old Testament

20

Bernard of Clairvaux

23

Rose of Lima

24

Bartholomew (Nathanael) the Apostle

27

Monica

28

Augustine of Hippo

29

Beheading of St John the Baptist

31

Aidan

September

1

Builders of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

2

Martyrs of Papua New Guinea

4

Albert Schweitzer

6

Charles Elliot Fox

7

Saints and Martyrs of the Pacific

8

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

13

Cyprian

14

Holy Cross Day

16

Ninian

17

Hildegarde of Bingen

19

Theodore of Tarsus

20

John Coleridge Patteson

21

Matthew the Apostle

23

Churchill Julius

25

Sergius of Radonezh

26

Lancelot Andrewes

27

Martyrs of Melanesia

29

Michael and All Angels

30

Jerome

October

1

Mother Marie-Joseph Aubert

2

Holy Guardian Angels

4

Francis of Assisi

6

Saints and Martyrs of Asia

7

William Tyndale

8

Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden

9

Robert Grosseteste

12

Elizabeth Fry

15

Teresa of Avila

16

English Reformers and Martyrs

17

Ignatius

18

Luke the Evangelist

19

Tarore of Waharoa

20

Henry Martyn

23

James of Jerusalem

24

Raphael

24

United Nations Day

26

Alfred

28

Simon and Jude, Apostles

30

Holy Women of the New Testament

November

1

All Saints' Day

2

All Souls' Day

3

Martin of Porres

4

Richard Hooker

6

Te Whiti o Rongomai

7

Willibrord

8

Saints and Martyrs of the Anglican Communion

10

Leo the Great

11

Martin of Tours

12

Charles Simeon

16

Margaret of Scotland

17

Hilda

18

Hugh

19

Elizabeth of Hungary

20

Mechtild of Magdeburg

22

Cecilia

23

Clement

30

Andrew the Apostle

December

3

Francis Xavier

6

Nicholas

7

Ambrose

8

Richard Baxter

9

Holy Men of the Old Testament

11

Octavius Hadfield

13

Lucy

16

Marianne Williams

21

Thomas the Apostle (alternative date)

24

Eve and Vigil of Christmas

25

Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ - Christmas Day

26

Stephen (alternative date)

27

John the Evangelist (alternative date)

28

Holy Innocents (alternative date)

29

Thomas Becket

30

Josephine Butler

31

John Wycliffe

Special Sundays

Christ in All Creation

Harvest Thanksgiving

Aotearoa Sunday

Sea Sunday

Social Services Sunday

Te Pouhere Sunday

Other Special Days

Consecration or Dedication of a Church

Education

Ember Days - Ordinands and Ordained Ministry

Guidance of the Holy Spirit

Missionary Work of the Church

New Beginning in Ministry

Peace of the World

Preparation before Feasts - Vigils

The Sick

Social Responsibility

Synod or Conference

Thanksgiving for Holy Communion - Corpus Christi

Unity of the Church

Work and Conservation - Rogation Days