Orthodox Easter Date

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The Orthodox celebrate Easter a week later than us this year. I’ve heard the reason for this discrepancy this year is because the Orthodox wait until the 7 day Jewish Passover to complete before they celebrate Easter.

Is this accurate? Any Web links or books would be helpful.
 
Charlie_Zeaiter said:
The Orthodox celebrate Easter a week later than us this year. I’ve heard the reason for this discrepancy this year is because the Orthodox wait until the 7 day Jewish Passover to complete before they celebrate Easter.

Is this accurate? Any Web links or books would be helpful.
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Generally, it’s because for calculating liturgical celebrations, the Orthodox use the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian.

This link might help: tondering.dk/claus/cal/node1.html
(but wow I find it complicated!)

Hope this helps.
 
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