Every year Christians around the world celebrate Easter.

However, when they celebrate Easter can vary dramatically.

In fact, the possible dates of Easter can vary by over a month.

What most people don't know is that setting the date for Easter was one of the biggest controversies in the early Christian church.

In fact, it was a major reason behind one of the most important councils in history.

Learn more about the Easter controversy, aka Cordodecomenism, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Oh, Holidays roughly fall into two categories. The first are holidays which are always on a particular date.

For example, New Year's Day is always January 1st, regardless of what day of the week that might be.

Another type of holiday is always celebrated on a certain day of the week.

For example, American Thanksgiving is always celebrated on the fourth

Thursday of November regardless of what the date might be. The major question which faced

Easter early on was, what kind of holiday was it going to be

was it going to be tied to a date or was it going to be tied to a day of the week and

that's actually an oversimplification as you'll soon see.

Plus there's the whole issue about calendars and the moon.

Just a refresher, Easter is a religious celebration by Christians

to commemorate the day they believe Jesus rose from the dead.

It's the most important day of the year for Christians

and the importance of the date is the major reason why there was such a big

controversy surrounding it.

The date of the event was never in question because it was tied to the Jewish

celebration of Passover. Passover was always celebrated on the 14th of Nissan in the

Jewish calendar and the events of Easter took place three days

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