Russian Orthodox Christmas 2025. The majority of orthodox believers, including the russian orthodox church, egyptian coptics, ukrainian churches, serbs, macedonia, and the mount athos monks in greece, celebrate. The only orthodox churches that still observe the 7th january date are the russian orthodox church, the ukrainian churches, the serbs and the mount athos monks in greece.
According to the julian calendar (used prior to gregorian calendar) the day falls. Orthodox christmas day is public holiday in 2025 in whole russia.