How The Dates For The Roman Catholic-Protestant And The Greek Orthodox Easter Are Determined Every year, tens of questions are received at Kefalonian Roots asking “Why is the Greek Orthodox Easter a different date from the Catholic-Protestant Easter?
” “How the dates for the two Easters determined?”This year we are going to try to explain the answers to these questions. A bibliography is listed at the end of the article.The basic idea to keep in mind, while reading the following information, is that Jesus went into Jerusalem during the week of the Jewish Passover. He went there to celebrate the Passover with his disciples. After the Feast of the Passover, he was captured, taken to trial and crucified. For this reason, it is easy to understand why the clergymen at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. believed that the Christian Easter should always be celebrated about the time of the Passover, but after Passover itself. Keeping these facts in mind, will help in your understanding the following information.The Catholic and Protestant Easter always falls on the Sunday following the first full moon of Spring, the first full moon following the vernal equinox, which falls about March 21st each year. If, for example, the first full moon is Ma
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