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Pascha / Easter Dating

The Church's oldest calendar quarrel: when exactly does Easter fall?

This concerns how the date of Pascha, the feast of Christ's resurrection, is fixed each year. The early Quartodeciman controversy debated whether to keep it on a set day tied to the Jewish reckoning, and the Council of Nicaea in 325 established a common method, or computus, decoupling the feast from that reckoning. The traditions still differ today, as the Western (Gregorian) and most Orthodox (Julian) calculations often place Easter on different dates.

How it traveled

  1. The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice
    Nicaea · 325
    applies
  2. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  3. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  4. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  5. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  6. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  7. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  8. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
    explains
  9. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 450
    explains
  10. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    explains
  11. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    explains
  12. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    applies
  13. The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage Under St. Cyprian, Which Canons Were Received by the Council in Trullo and Ratified by II. Nice
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 692
    applies

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Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus. · Remains of the Second and Third Centuries

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The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils

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