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Resolution Number: 2000-A043
Title: Endorse Procedures for Achieving a Common Date for Easter
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention, in response to Lambeth Conference Resolution IV.8: "A Common Date for Easter" endorse the proposal of the World Council of Churches that the following procedures for achieving a commonly recognized date for the celebration of Easter, as the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, should be agreed upon by all Christian Churches:

  1. Maintain the Nicene norms that Easter fall on the Sunday following the first vernal full moon;
  2. Calculate the date of the vernal equinox from the data provided by the most accurate scientific and astronomical methods;
  3. Use as the basis of reckoning the meridian of Jerusalem, the place of Christ's death and resurrection; and be it further

Resolved, That this endorsement be communicated to the Secretary of the Anglican Consultative Council by the Feast of the Nativity, AD 2000.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 529.