In the Church of England the Presentation of Christ in the Temple is a principal feast. In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is one of the twelve Great Feasts. 2 February This feast day has a number of different names: The Meeting of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ (Eastern Orthodox Church) The Coming of the Son of God into the Temple (Armenian Apostolic Church) Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Eastern Rite Catholic Churches) The Presentation of the Lord (ordinary form of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church) Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1962 and earlier forms of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church) The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in The Temple (Episcopal Church of the United States) Presentation of Our Lord (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Anglican Church of Canada) The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Anglican Church of Canada) The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Church of England and Anglican Church of Australia). 3 February Simeon the Righteous is commemorated in his own right on 3 February. In the Anglican Communion Simeon is not venerated with a festal observance, and 3 February is designated to recognize Blaise, Bishop of Sebastea, or in modern calendars, Saint Anskar (801–865), a missionary, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, and the first Bishop in Sweden in 864. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Simeon is commemorated with Anna the Prophetess on 3 February on the Feast of the Holy and Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess. 16 February While both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches agree on the date of Candlemas as the 40th day after Christmas, in accordance with the Mosaic Law, the difference in the marking of Christmas on 25 December resulted from a theological dispute on the replacement by the Gregorian Calendar of the older Julian Calendar. 25 December currently occurs 13 days later on the Julian Calendar than on the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian revision of the calendar occurred in 1582, well after the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Christian churches in 1054. Consequently, many Orthodox Christians celebrate the feast of Saint Simeon on 16 February. As mentioned above, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Simeon on the day after the Feast of the Presentation, i. e. 3 February. However, for those churches that use the Julian