Early Christians disagreed about whether their most sacred holiday should be celebrated in conjunction with Passover.
A dove flies ahead of the pallium of Our Lady of Sorrow during a penitential Holy Week procession in Seville, Spain. By Marisa Iati April 20 at 7:00 AM It had all the makings of a spirited religious debate: More than 300 bishops representing different factions of the Christian church met during the 4th century in what is now Turkey.
While most churches calculate the date with the Gregorian calendar created by Pope Gregory XIII, Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar established by Julius Caesar. Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter between April 4 and May 8.As a result, anyone trying to plan an egg hunt or calculate when stores will stock chocolate bunnies has to take a fresh look at the calendar each spring to find the right dates.
Roman and Alexandrian Christians, meanwhile, thought Easter should be on a Sunday because of the Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead on that day. This group also tried to differentiate themselves from Judaism, Wessel said, and did not want to link Easter directly with Passover.The Roman church was starting to be seen as the epicenter of the faith, and its ideas carried weight, Wessel said.
Even after this method for finding the date of Easter was created, the disagreement did not fully die.
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