Easter astrotheology ...

[MrMacSon]

"The heads of the Christian churches are close to sealing a deal to fix the date of Easter, the Archbishop of Canterbury has revealed, ending more than a thousand years of confusion and debate ...

"Archbishop Welby, Pope Francis, the Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (head of the Greek Orthodox church) are all working towards a common date ...

"For one and a half millennia, for Anglicans and Catholics, Easter Sunday has been the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox* – a convoluted formula which means the date can vary by more than a month from year to year ...

... the Eastern Orthodox Church calculates Easter differently using the old Julian calendar ... "


* "The current Easter formula was agreed at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, a gathering of Catholic bishops requested by Emperor Constantine to settle various warring creeds and sects within the church.

"Though the Roman church already agreed that Easter should be on a Sunday, different cities and sects disagreed on the date, some because they didn't want it to be associated with the Jewish Passover.

"Even centuries after Nicaea there were still some standouts – especially in Britain, where Christians insisted on sticking to an old formula. It wasn't until the Synod of Whitby in 664 that the 'Roman Easter' was accepted in northern Britain."


http://www.smh.com.au/world/christian-c ... m769e.html

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[Agnosticus]

About time too. Rome couldn't let go it's paganism. Christmas too because the date was unknowable was placed at the winter solstice or Saturnalia.........http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/co ... ?id=250695