Orthodox communities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East - which make up more than 12% of all Christians according to the Pew Research Center - celebrate the big day weeks after most of the Western world. It's because they use a different calendar, called the Julian calendar, to work out when Christmas should be.
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Jan 8, 2023 · Everyone celebrates Christmas on December 25. The difference is that some churches use the Julian calendar and others use the revised Julian ...
They selected Dec 25 to be the date to celebrate the birth of Christ and kept Jan 6 to be the baptism. The selection of Dec 25 also addressed a second issue.
Dec 25, 2022 · Romania started celebrating Christmas on December 25 after the Pan Orthodox Congress of Constantinople in 1922 which almost broke the unity ...
Jan 5, 2024 · Churches in the Greek and Antiochian traditions, along with the Orthodox Church in America, observed Christmas on Dec. 25. Some churches in the ...
Dec 21, 2023 · Some Orthodox will celebrate Christmas on December 25 according to the Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars while others will celebrate the same Feast ...
Jan 6, 2024 · Technically, there aren't. All Eastern Orthodox agree that December 25 is the date of Christmas, or the Feast of the Nativity, as they call it.
Dec 1, 2024 · Greece, one of the first Christian countries in the Balkans, celebrates Christmas on December 25, even though it is an Orthodox state.
Jan 6, 2023 · For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates ...
Dec 25, 2022 · Similarly, Christmas is also celebrated on Dec. 25 by the majority of local Orthodox churches of the world – because they celebrate according to ...
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