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Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year.

It is also one of the English-language names for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

Pentecost may also refer to:

Other religious and cultural events

• Pinksteren (Dutch word meaning "Pentecost"), often pronounced in English as "Pinkster"

Places

• Pentecost, Mississippi, U.S.
• Pentecost Island, one of the islands of Vanuatu
• Pentecost River, a river in Western Australia

People

• Pentecost Dodderidge (died c. 1650), MP for Barnstaple, England
• Denie Pentecost (born 1970), Australian footballer
• George Frederick Pentecost (1842–1920), American evangelist
• Hugh O. Pentecost (1848–1907), American minister, editor, lawyer, and lecturer
• J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014), American theologian
• Max Pentecost (born 1993), American baseball player
• Del Pentecost (born 1963), American actor and cast member of the 2008 play Almost an Evening

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Pentecost (El Greco), one of the canvasses that composed the Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece by El Greco
• Pentecost (film), a 2011 Irish live action short film
• Pentecost (Moretto), a 1543-1544 painting by Moretto da Brescia
• Pentecost (play), a 1994 British dramatic play
• Pentecost III, an EP by the British doom metal band Anathema

Other uses

• Pentecost University College, Sowutuom, Ghana

See also

• Pentecostalism, a Protestant Christian movement
• All pages with titles containing Pentecost
• All pages with titles containing Pentecostalism