Orthodox Easter Dates

Orthodox Easter Dates

What Day is Easter? The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. For more detail, see the description after the list. Orthodox Easter dates are as follows, dates when “Western” (Protestant and Catholic) Easter and “Greek Orthodox Easter” coincide are indiated below:

2008  April 27	    
2009  April 19
2010  April 4 (same)
2011  April 24 (same)
2012  April 15
2013  May 5
2014  April 20 (same)
2015  April 12 
2016  May 1
2017  April 16 (same)
2018  April 8
2019  April 28
2020  April 19
2021  May 2
2022  April 24
2023  April 16
    

The general statement is that Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox; this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. The result is that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25.

Western Easter	Orthodox Easter
15 April 1990	15 April 1990
31 March 1991	7 April 1991
19 April 1992	26 April 1992
11 April 1993	18 April 1993
3 April 1994	1 May 1994
16 April 1995	23 April 1995
7 April 1996	14 April 1996
30 March 1997	27 April 1997
12 April 1998	19 April 1998
4 April 1999	11 April 1999
23 April 2000	30 April 2000
15 April 2001	15 April 2001
31 March 2002	5 May 2002
20 April 2003	27 April 2003
11 April 2004	11 April 2004
27 March 2005	1 May 2005
16 April 2006	23 April 2006
8 April 2007	8 April 2007
23 March 2008	27 April 2008
12 April 2009	19 April 2009