Easter Dates
March 1, 2008 · Print This Article
Originally, Easter was celebrated at the time of the Jewish Passover. Over the years, the Christian church developed its own method of calculating Easter. When the calendar was reformed, the Western churches based their Easter dates on the new Gregorian calendar, while the Eastern churches continued to base their dates on the old, Julian calendar.
The table below gives the date of the first full moon after the March Equinox*, and the dates of the Jewish Passover and Eastern and Western Easter for the years 2004 - 2010…
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