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The Calendar Question in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Australia. How do you feel about the Julian Calendar and do you think it will or should be changed to the Gregorian Calendar?

YES 78%, 7 votes
7 votes 78%
7 votes - 78% of all votes
NO 22%, 2 votes
2 votes 22%
2 votes - 22% of all votes
I don't know 0%, 0 votes
0 votes
0 votes - 0% of all votes
0%, 0 votes
0 votes
0 votes - 0% of all votes
0%, 0 votes
0 votes
0 votes - 0% of all votes

Total Votes: 9

Voters: 9

Voting is closed

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope and the worldwide Catholic Church. The UGCC in Australia need to move to the celebration of religious holidays for once and for all from the ancient Julian Calendar to the more widely-accepted Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar, also known as the Western or Christian Calendar, is the most widely used calendar in the world today. Its predecessor, the Julian Calendar, was replaced because it did not properly reflect the actual time it takes the Earth to circle once around the Sun, known as a tropical year.

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