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Mar 30, 2021 · The Eastern Catholic Churches — for the most part — celebrate Easter at the time the Latin Catholic Church does— some do so proudly, as a sign of their communion with the pope. But in some Eastern Catholic Churches, there remains a cultural attachment to the Julian calendar, and to the Orthodox date for Easter.
Jul 13, 2023 · Easter is not only a movable holiday but a multiple one: in most years Western Christian churches and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on different dates. In 2015, for example, Easter will be celebrated on April 5 by Western churches and April 12 by Orthodox churches. But in 2014, the two celebrations occurred on the same date, April ...
To this day, the Orthodox have stuck with this method of calculating the date of the feast, leading to the celebration of Orthodox Easter usually falling later than in the Western world. In some years, however, Eastern and Western Easter fall on the same date, and this will once again be the case in the year 2025.
Apr 19, 2022 · This year, Easter for those who follow the Gregorian calendar was observed on Sunday 17 April, since the first full moon to occur after the Spring Equinox is on 20 March. However, Orthodox Easter ...
May 1, 2013 · As a consequence of these two factors, the Orthodox Church usually celebrates Pascha later than the Western Churches – anywhere from one to five weeks later (as it is this year). Occasionally we do celebrate Pascha on the same day. The last time that occurred was in 2011 and the next time will be in 2014.
Dec 25, 2023 · Those churches now celebrate Christmas on December 25. But other Orthodox churches, like those of Russia and Egypt, refused. And still others, like Poland, adopted Milanković’s calendar, then dropped it later. They celebrate Christmas on January 7—until 2100, that is, when it will move to January 8 as the calendar continues to drift.
