Date of Easter

This is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost occur in a given year. Easter may occur on different dates in the Gregorian Calendar (Western) and the Julian Calendar. The accompanying table provides both sets of dates, for recent and forthcoming years—see the computus article for more details on the calculation.

council of Christian bishops in Nicaea, 325

bishop of Rome from c. 157 to 168

calculation of the date of Easter

thumb|Face on the Zimmer tower in [[Lier, Belgium: On the outer ring, the hand points to the golden number, or the number of the current year in the metonic cycle. The inner ring shows the epact, which is the age of the moon on the first of January of the current year.]]

method used to determine the day of the week for particular dates

papal bull

English church synod in 664

Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, meaning fourteenth) is the name given to the practice of commemorating the death of Christ on the day of Passover, the 14th of Nisan according to biblical dating, on whatever day of the week it occurs. The Quartodeciman controversy in the Church was the question of whether to celebrate Easter on Sunday (the first day of the week), or at the time of sacrifice of the Passover lamb.

controversy over the correct date for Easter

Latin work written by Bede

carnival parade in Mainz, Germany