moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus (Latin for 'computation'). Easter is celebrated on...
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Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection...
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Reform of the date of Easter refers to proposals to change the date for the annual celebration of Easter. These proposals include setting a fixed date or...
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is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Feast of the Ascension...
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Gregorian calendar (redirect from Gregorian date)
nominal 21 March date. This date was important to the Christian churches because it is fundamental to the calculation of the date of Easter. To reinstate...
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date for Easter began in Early Christianity as early as the 2nd century AD. Discussion and disagreement over the best method of computing the date of...
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of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in March 1997. Under the proposal, Easter...
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Julian calendar (redirect from Year of confusion)
As a result, 21 March (which is the base date for calculating the date of Easter) gradually moved out of alignment with the March equinox. While Hipparchus...
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announced the date on which Easter was to be celebrated. The council chose Alexandria because of its famous school of astronomy, and the date of Easter depends...
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earlier. Since the date of Easter is calculated differently by Eastern and Western Christians, the date of the Western Churches' Easter Friday is often different...
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Public holidays in Cyprus (category Culture of Cyprus)
Sunday – date variable Easter Monday – date variable Easter Tuesday – date variable Labour Day – 1 May Pentecost Monday – date variable Dormition of the Theotokos...
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Western Christianity (section Date of Easter)
"Judaized" (i.e. Passover date for) Easter. The date of observance of Easter has only differed in modern times since the promulgation of the Gregorian calendar...
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Coptic calendar (section Date of Easter)
Coptic date of Easter is determined by a calculation based on the Alexandrian 19-year cycle, which synchronises the lunar months with the solar years of the...
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Constantine the Great and Judaism (category Views of Judaism by individual)
the separation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover (see also Quartodecimanism), stating in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea (which...
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uniform observance of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law. The major impetus for the calling of the Council of Nicaea arose in a theological...
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The Easter cycle is the sequence of the seasons and days in the Christian liturgical year which are pegged to the date of Easter, either before or after...
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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916...
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Spring (season) (section Easter)
celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day, two days after Good Friday. Since the Last Supper was a Passover Seder, the date of Easter can be calculated as the...
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Old Style and New Style dates (redirect from Old Style date)
leap years. The consequence was that the basis for the calculation of the date of Easter, as decided in the 4th century, had drifted from reality. The Gregorian...
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Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
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the correct method of calculating the date of Easter. Early Christians had probably originally celebrated Easter concurrent with the Jewish Passover (see...
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An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another—usually electronic—medium. The term used in this manner...
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Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (redirect from Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use)
example, Christmas Day remained on 25 December. (Easter is a moveable feast: the Act specifies how its date should be calculated.) It ordered that civil and...
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Pentecost (redirect from The Decent of the holy spirit)
provide a special liturgy for this holy celebration. Since its date depends on the date of Easter, Pentecost is a "moveable feast". The Monday after Pentecost...
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Moai (redirect from Statues of Easter Island)
are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half...
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Ecclesiastical full moon (category Date of Easter)
moon is on Sunday, Easter is the following Sunday. Thus the earliest possible date of Easter is March 22, while the latest possible date is April 25. In...
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Celtic Christianity (redirect from Conversion of the British Isles)
system for determining the dating of Easter, a style of monastic tonsure, a unique system of penance, and the popularity of going into "exile for Christ"...
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Easter Act 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed and enacted in 1928 concerning the date for Easter that...
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Maslenitsa (redirect from Sunday of Forgiveness)
Eastern Orthodox Pascha. The date of Maslenitsa changes every year, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. It corresponds to the Western...
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tables. From about the middle of the seventh century all controversy between Alexandria and Rome as to the correct date of Easter ceased, as both churches...
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