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Related: About this forumChristian leaders attempt to fix global date for Easter
Source: The Guardian
Archbishop of canterbury Justin Welby says unified date could come in five to 10
years allowing followers worldwide to celebrate at same time
Ben Quinn
Friday 15 January 2016 16.58 GMT
The archbishop of Canterbury has announced he is engaged in an ambitious plan to solve one of the oldest disagreements in Christianity one dating back more than 1,600 years.
Justin Welby said he had been in discussions with Catholic representatives and the worlds other major Christian denominations to agree on a fixed day for Easter, at the end of a four-day meeting of Anglican primates whose meeting had been dominated by discord over gay rights.
The archbishop said he had warned ministers that the change could have an effect on school terms and calendars, saying he hoped the unified date on the second or third Sunday in April could be introduced in the next five to 10 years. He added: I would love to see it before I retire.
The rules for determining the date of Easter were set in AD325 at the council of Nicaea, which was convened by the Roman emperor Constantine to codify the Christian faith. It declared that Easter should come on the first Sunday after the 14th day of the Paschal or ecclesiastical full moon, meaning that it falls between 22 March 22 and 25 April where the Gregorian calendar is used.
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)What would you do differently? And should Easter for Australian Xstians be pushed back a day, so that they're not celebrating on Sunday, when it's still only Saturday for Xstians in the US?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)But on reflection it is nice to go to an Orthdox Easter service with friends so that would not be posible.
But it is just an emotional thing about unity.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)when they're still in lent.
Problem solved.
underpants
(182,802 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)We already got it wrong with Da Gay thing.
Yes, Beatrice, its satire.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)which is determined by the Lunar Jewish calendar this makes no real sense. It is like the Catholic Church in the U.S. moving 3 Kings day from January 6th to the Sunday following January 1st. I guess they got the idea from congress which has done its best to make every Federal holiday on a Monday. If they could legislate that July 4th is always a Monday they would or November 11th is always on a Monday.
edhopper
(33,577 posts)since it is just a co-opting of the Spring festival.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)niyad
(113,302 posts)In 325CE the Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox.(*) From that point forward, the Easter date depended on the ecclesiastical approximation of March 21 for the vernal equinox.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Or is there some disagreement between the 'serious theologians' over when this fictional event "actually" took place?
edhopper
(33,577 posts)not the crucifixion, At some unrecorded time, a guy named Yeshua might have been crucified. I think Josephus or Tacitus mentions it.
Any way, is it different than decided that Dec. 24th is the night Santa goes to everyone's home, or the date of a purely mythological birth.
rug
(82,333 posts)It's astronomy in this case. The confusion refers to the minority still using the Julian Calendar versus the majority using the astronomically updated Gregorian Calendar.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)They are in fraternity though. Maybe they'll follow Canterbury's suggestion.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,315 posts)The article ends:
Pope Tawadros has put forward the idea to churches in the eastern tradition and the western tradition that it be fixed somewhere around the second or third sunday of April and we will certainly be joining in. We have agreed that we support that, Welby said.
rug
(82,333 posts)Ironically the Anglican Church rejected the Gregorian Calendar for a long time because it was adopted by Rome. It's reflected in the records of the early American colonies.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)I am amused.
Next on the docket, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?