For Western (Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant)
Christian, and for the Eastern (Orthodox)
Christian traditions.
Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration
of Christ's resurrection. The aim of the Easter
Dating Method is to maintain, for each Easter
Sunday, the same season of the year and the
same relationship to the preceding astronomical
full moon that occurred at the time of His
resurrection in 30 A.D.
Orthodox churches celebrate their Easter always
on the basis of the Julian calendar and the
"19 Paschal Full Moon dates" table. The dates
for Orthodox Easter Sunday shown above are
for the Gregorian calendar equivalent, i.e.
the calendar used today in the UK. The Julian
calendar date Thursday October 4, 1582 was
followed by the Gregorian calendar date Friday
October 15, 1582. The 10 dates October 5 to
14 were removed.
In some years the Orthodox Easter Sunday occurs
on the same day as the Western Easter Sunday.
