How can Easter be on two different days?

drever_dog: How can Easter be on two different days?
in the orthodox calender its on april 19th. but easter for other ppl was on april 12th. i know it has to deal with the calenders of different religions. but how am i to know what day jesus was actually reborn?

Answers and Views:

Answer by pudlasz
On I Ecumenical Council in Nicea in 325 there were rules to count date of Easter introduced rules. RC Church abandned one of them (that Easter must be after Jewish Passover) so it is a reason of differences.

Answer by THEAmericanPatriot
Jesus wasn’t REBORN, he was RESURRECTED.
Easter falls on different Sundays in different years. The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) set the date of Easter as the Sunday following the paschal full moon, which is the full moon that falls on or after the vernal (spring) equinox.
It’s not as important as WHEN He was resurrected, but the fact that JESUS WAS resurrected (the same goes for His birth..not WHEN but HE WAS born). This shows us that trusting Him as Lord and Savior, WE TOO will be resurrected one day.

Answer by KaeKae’s mom
The differences in the dates as previous answer indicate have a lot to do with the council of Nicaea. The Orthodox Church has the date as the first Sunday following the Vernal(sp?) or Spring Equinox that also follows Passover. The bible does state that Christ celebrated the last Supper (Passover) with His disciples. The Western Church, still follows that Easter has to fall after the Spring Equinox but doesn’t wait to follow Passover.

Answer by yalegracey
Yeah..what they said

Happy belated Easter

Answer by imacatholic2
The actual date does not really matter. What matters is that we acknowledge the fact of the Resurrection and live accordingly.

Easter is calculated to follow the Jewish feast of Passover.

Catholics and most Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to calculate the date of Easter.

The Orthodox Church uses the old Julian calendar introduced in 46 B.C.E. by Julius Caesar.

For more information, see:
Catholic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Greek Orthodox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

With love in Christ.