Easter history

Easter... easter was not entirely without controversy in the early church. different church regions were celebrating easter at different times, and all claimed apostolic authority. this controversy is called the quartodeciman latin for fourteenism controversy. In asia minor, many churches, including the church at smyrna under the pastoral care of st. polycarp, were celebrating easter on the 14th of nisan, following Jewish passover customs... however, church historian eusebius tells us that the church in rome and most other catholic dioceses always celebrated easter on a sunday. both customs may have derived from apostolic authority, but by the time of origen 230 AD, the numbers of quartodecimans were few. also... differences arose between the churches of antioch and alexandria as to the computation of the paschal moon. the council of nicaea settled the date of easter in favor of the alexandrians putting easter on the sunday after the vernal equinox. however... as discussed above, eastern orthodox and western/eastern catholic easter falls on different dates because of differing calendars.