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Eye Candy [x] asked:


All other Orthodox countries( Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia,Ukraine,Georgia..etc) celebrate Christmas on January 6th.

But Greece is the only Orthodox country who celebrates it on December 25th along with the West. Can you tell me the reason for this?

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Komentarze (10) do “How come Greece is the only Orthodox country that celebrates Christmas on December 25th ?”

1. nemeczek Says:
   27 lutego 2009 o 19:13

   the Greek church is not using the old calendar

2. audine Says:
   2 marca 2009 o 18:45

   That is when the moon disappears.

3. Min Tous Kiklous Terates Says:
   3 marca 2009 o 7:04

   beacuse santa clause…dosent do january….

4. ღGoxyღ Says:
   6 marca 2009 o 14:35

   It’s not true that “all other Orthodox countries celebrate Christmas on January 6th”. It’s just the opposite: all Orthodox Churches use the New, Gregorian Calendar except those of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, Georgia and Mount Athos.
   The other churches use the Gregorian calendar for fixed feasts and holy days but the Julian calendar for Easter and movable feasts. In this way all the Orthodox celebrate Easter together, because it’s the holiest day of all - celebrating the beginning of new life.
   - you are not Greek and you don’t know anything about astronomy or history otherwise you’d know that where Christ was born - it was (and still is) summer most of the time, so it’s actually awkward to celebrate His birth in winter, if you’re referring to the authenticity of the event. You’re just a clone of the asker (a well known trollina) with a ridiculous and a pitiful attempt to neutralize my factual answer.

5. cpinatsi Says:
   9 marca 2009 o 16:01

   We follow the western calendar, that’s all! It doesn’t mean we are less orthodox or more orthodox, it’s just the calendar. There are some people in Greece who still celebrate with the old calendar.
   But we all celebrate Easter together, as we calculate Easter the correct way, as a nun explained to me once, because it has to be after the Jewish Passover, since Jesus was arrested at the Jewish Passover, so it is wrong to celebrate the Resurrection before the Jewish Passover. Or something like that.

6. nakis Says:
   12 marca 2009 o 18:34

   greeks celebrate according modern calendar and slaves to old calendar but there are many greeks that they celebrate according to old calendar.

7. I_love_soccer Says:
   13 marca 2009 o 4:59

   Excuse me there is Cyprus too!Cyprus celebrates it on 25th of December because this is Jesus birth day.

8. Vasilia V Says:
   14 marca 2009 o 7:46

   Actually the celebration lasts several days in Greece.

9. AVGVSTVS Says:
   15 marca 2009 o 2:36

   Greek church follows the new (Gregorian) calendar, not the old (Julian). Russian, Serbian etc. CHURCH (not state) follow the old calendar. There is an Orthodox Christian minority/sect in Greece who still follow the Old calendar (Palaioimerologites).

   If you follow the Old calendar one day they will celebrate Xmas in summer

10. Hrisy Says:
    16 marca 2009 o 20:04

    Your information is just wrong,
    i’m a Bulgarian and we do celebrate Christmas on December, 25th

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