Who decides what dates easter will be each year?
Working Out the Date of Easter Day Because the Church calendar follows the moon, Easter Day can be on any Sunday from March 22nd to April 25th! Easter is the Christian celebration of the anniversary of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This happened on a date representing the first Full Moon of Spring on the Jewish Calendar. Because of that, Easter Day is always the first Sunday after the first calculated Full Moon on or after March 21st. If the Full Moon is on a Sunday, Easter Day is on the next Sunday. For the past 1500 years, March 21st has been used to represent the date of the March equinox (the real equinox might be a day or two different). There are two equinoxes a year, one in March and one in September. Equinox means ‘equal night’ and on the Equinoxes the day and night are of the same length. The March Equinox is also known as the Vernal Equinox. Several methods have been used since early Christian times to work out the date of Easter Day. It was made more complicate
