The 2025 Orthodox wall calendar is now available to purchase below for collection or delivery from the 8th December, with all proceeds going to the Orthodox Church of the 318 Holy Fathers in Shrewsbury.

Featuring full-colour icons, an in-depth fasting guide, details on major feasts, and brief biographies of the 318 Holy Fathers of Nicaea to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the world’s first Ecumenical Council.

It is a beautiful and essential addition to your walls that will help you plan your lives according to the salvific cycle of the Church year.

In 2025, we celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the world’s first Ecumenical Council, the Council of Nicaea of AD 325, when 318 bishops of the Church gathered in defence of the Apostolic Faith. The Fathers defeated Arius and his followers, who denied the divinity of Christ. The fathers upheld the Church’s belief in a triune God. We proclaim this in the Nicene Creed.

In each month of this calendar, we present a short life of one of the 318 Holy Fathers along with hymnography of the Church that proclaims the Divine and Human natures of Christ. These ‘Dogmatik’ hymns or ‘Dogmatik Theotokia’ are attributed to Saint John of Damascus born in the second half of the 7th Century who defended the Church against iconoclasm, a heresy that also denies the divinity of Christ.