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Ephemeris of Saturday 6 January, 2024

The sun and moon on 01/06/2024 in Greece

(All times given here are in Athens local time)

Sunrise: 7:39 AM
Sunset: 5:21 PM
The sun will be at its zenith at 12:30 PM
Sunshine duration: 9 hours and 41 minutes (1 minute compared to yesterday)

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 7:39 AM and set at 5:22 PM

Right now the time in Greece is 1:00 AM.
Greece's time difference from the Greenwich meridian: 2 hours(*)
Greece's time difference from Paris: 1 hour
(*) taking into account summer/winter time

23 days moon

On 01/06/2024 the moon was 23 days old.
Next full moon on 25 January, 2024.
Next new moon on 11 January, 2024.

Commemorations on 6 January

(according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar)

Saints of the day

  • Sainte Théophanie de notre Seigneur
    Άγια Θεοφάνεια του Κυρίου
  • St Romanos de Lacédémone
    Ρωμανού νέου Ιερομάρτυρος εκ Λακεδεμονίας

Fasting Instructions: the January 6 is a free of fasting day (κατάλυση)

Today we celebrate these names in Greece

Un jour comme un 6 January

1454
Grâce à son amitié avec le Sultan Mehmet II, le moine Georges Scholarios est ordonné en un jour Patriarche de Constantinople sous le nom de Yennadios. (More on
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1449

Constantin XI Paleoologue, dit Dragasis, despote du Moria (Péloponnèse), est couronné, à Mystra, empereur de Byzance. Il sera le dernier empereur de l'empire jusqu'à la prise de Constantinople par les Turcottomans.

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