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« on: May 11, 2021, 03:26:45 PM »
Quote from: Dr. RI, Trustbuster on May 11, 2021, 01:37:43 PM
Quote from: Statilius the Epicurean on May 06, 2021, 07:20:00 PM
Because it's theologically important that Easter be celebrated the Sunday after Passover, and Passover is reckoned by the Jewish lunar calendar which is different to our ordinary solar calendar.

If the date of Passover and therefore Easter is pegged to the Jewish calendar, why are there different dates for Easter in Eastern Orthodoxy vs. Western Christianity?

I don't believe the date is different: its just that the Julian calendar is out-of-sync with the Gregorian calendar.
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