Editing Easter (section)

===Western-Eastern divergence===

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35880795|title=Why Can't the Date of Easter be Fixed|publisher=BBC |author=Caroline Wyatt|date=25 March 2016|access-date=13 April 2017|archive-date=24 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124001359/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35880795|url-status=live}}</ref> within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.<ref>[http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.php The Date of Easter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814045718/http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.php |date=14 August 2011 }}. Article from [[United States Naval Observatory]] (27 March 2007).</ref> The preceding Friday, [[Good Friday]], and following Monday, [[Easter Monday]], are [[legal holiday]]s in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Easter Monday in Hungary in 2021|url=https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/easter-monday|access-date=3 April 2021|website=Office Holidays |archive-date=5 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105114204/https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/easter-monday|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox]] Christians use the same rule but base their 21 March according to the Julian calendar. Because of the thirteen-day difference between the calendars from 1900 through 2099, 21 March Julian corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar (during the 20th and 21st centuries). Consequently, the date of Orthodox Easter varies between 4 April and 8 May in the Gregorian calendar. Orthodox Easter is usually several days or more than a month later than Western Easter.

Among the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox]], some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter, as for other fixed and moveable feasts, is the same as in the Western church.<ref>"The Church in Malankara switched entirely to the Gregorian calendar in 1953, following Encyclical No. 620 from Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem I, dt. December 1952." [http://sor.cua.edu/Calendar/index.html Calendars of the Syriac Orthodox Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224054556/http://sor.cua.edu/Calendar/index.html |date=24 February 2010 }}. Retrieved 22 April 2009</ref>

The Greek island of [[Syros]], whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date—a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.<ref>{{cite news | title=Easter: A date with God | url=http://www.economist.com/node/18584376 | date=20 April 2011 | newspaper=The Economist | access-date=23 April 2011 | quote=Only in a handful of places do Easter celebrants alter their own arrangements to take account of their neighbours. Finland's Orthodox Christians mark Easter on the Western date. And on the Greek island of Syros, a Papist stronghold, Catholics and Orthodox alike march to Orthodox time. The spectacular public commemorations, involving flower-strewn funeral biers on Good Friday and fireworks on Saturday night, bring the islanders together, rather than highlighting division. | archive-date=23 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423192921/https://www.economist.com/node/18584376 | url-status=live }}</ref> Conversely, Orthodox Christians in Finland celebrate Easter according to the [[Western Christian]] date.<ref>{{cite news | title=Easter: A date with God | url=http://www.economist.com/node/18584376 | date=20 April 2011 | newspaper=The Economist | access-date=23 April 2011 | quote=Finland's Orthodox Christians mark Easter on the Western date. | archive-date=23 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423192921/https://www.economist.com/node/18584376 | url-status=live }}</ref>