One holiday, two dates: Western vs. Orthodox Easter Sunday What Do People Do? Many Orthodox Christian churches, including the Greek Orthodox and the Russian Orthodox churches, celebrate the “miracle of Easter” on the Easter Sunday date in the Julian calendar. Many people see Easter as the mo...
Easter date: The calculation of Easter, the most important Christian holiday, is done differently in Eastern and Western Christianity, leading to variations in the timing of several holidays that are based on the Easter date. Saints and icons: The Orthodox Church strongly emphasizes the veneration ...
aThe Orthodox church uses the same formula to calculate Easter as the Western church, but bases it on the traditional Julian calendar instead of the more contemporary Gregorian calendar. For this reason Orthodox Easter generally falls on a different date than the Western Christian Easter. 东正教使用...
Orthodox, western faiths share Easter this year, nextEmily Jurlina
Together in faith -- Orthodox, Western Christian calendars in sync for EasterLindsay Melvin
Due to the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church follows a different calendar to its Western counterparts Easter Sunday often falls on a different date. In...Russian Easter
Christ is risen! Christos anesti!; This year, Eastern Orthodox and Western churches celebrate Easter, or Pascha, on the same dateLori Van Ingen
Nonetheless, when it comes to adjudicating the legacies of religion’s interaction with secular power, there are ways in which Russia is meaningfully distinguished from its neighbors, particularly those in Western Europe. Critically, the modern Russian state traces its roots back to the medieval prin...