Onuphrius
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Catholic vs. Orthodox Easter
As you probably know already, Orthodox churches celebrate Easter according to the Julian Calendar. The Julian Calendar was in use throughout the world until the Sixteenth Century, when Pope Gregory XIII commissioned a group of astronomers to rectify the calendar, which had become quite inaccurate. The Julian Calendar was implemented by Julius Caesar, and was a lunar calendar-the Gregorian Calendar is very accurate, is a solar calendar, and is used almost universally throughout the world today. Many Protestant countries were slow to adopt it, and the Orthodox churches for the most part never have, although most Eastern Catholic churches now use it. Orthodox churches, therefore, quite frequently celebrate Easter on a different date than Catholics-this year the Orthodox celebrate Easter on Sunday, April 23-this year, on the day that Catholics were celebrating Easter, the Orthodox were celebrating Palm Sunday. The relation of orthodox to Catholic Easter changes from year to year. Some years (a minority of them) Catholic and Orthodox Easter falls on the same day.
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4/23/2006, 12:05 am
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