EASTER is an important date in the calendar for many.However, ... April 4, 2021; April 17, 2022; This year's Easter celebrations will take place on Sunday, April 9.

Eastern Orthodox churches use the Julian calendar, which can place the date of Easter anywhere between April 4 and May 8 when it's converted back to the Gregorian calendar. This year, the Eastern ...

The Julian calendar falls a little further behind the Gregorian each year − it's lost 13 days since the Council of Nicaea − but the Orthodox Church still uses it for liturgical purposes.

Today, Orthodox Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate the Easter date instead of the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582 and is used by most of the world.

Because the lunar calendar is always 29 ½ days and the Gregorian Calendar is not in sync, Easter can be any Sunday from March 22 to April 25! The last time Easter Sunday fell on March 22 was in ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.

The U.S. and most of the world use the Gregorian calendar, which can place the date of Easter anywhere between March 22 and April 25. The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, ...