Why are there two Easter Dates?
- Orthodox churches in some countries including Greece, Cyprus, and Romania base their Easter date on the Julian calendar.
- The Julian Calendar was designed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC - basing a year on the time it takes the Sun to go around the Earth.
- The Gregorian Calendar was created by Pope Gregory in 1582 to fix some of the glitches in the Julian Calendar as astronomy became more accurate.
- Great Britain changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
- Also in the eastern Orthodox Church, Easter must happen after the Jewish festival of Passover - as in the Easter story, Jesus celebrates Passover bef
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