Easter is just around the corner.

We know when Christmas is, and when our parents' birthdays are, but what nigh Easter?

In that location'southward no stock-still date .

And that can be an upshot.

Here's all you lot demand to know.

When is Easter 2017?

Dissimilar the majority of Christian holidays, Easter does not have a stock-still date .

The key dates this year are as follows:

Good Friday is on April fourteen.

Easter Sun (also called Easter Day) is on Apr 16.

Easter Monday is on April 17.

Good Friday is the side by side banking concern holiday in the year afterward New year's day'south Day.

And with Easter Mon as well a banking concern holiday, information technology means a iv-twenty-four hour period long weekend for many people.

Why does the date of Easter change every year?

Easter is what'southward chosen a movable feast - a Christian festival whose date changes each year.

The banquet solar day is based on the lunar calendar, so Easter is scheduled to fall on the Sunday that follows the full moon on or after March 21, also known as the Spring Equinox.

So, in Western Christianity, Easter volition always autumn betwixt March 22 and April 25.

A council of Christian bishops was convened by Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325, the First Council of Nicea, in order to make decisions most several Christian topics.

Passion of Jesus functioning in Guildford High Street

It was decided at this council that Easter Day should autumn on the first full moon later on the Spring Equinox, and that it should ever autumn on a Sunday to represent the day of Christ's Resurrection.

The paschal full moon was chosen as a footing, as this coincides with the date of Passover on the Jewish calendar.

As such, Easter is gear up as the Sunday post-obit Passover.

Passion of Jesus performance in Guildford High Street

Equally the paschal total moon can occur on different dates in different time zones, information technology has been decided by the Church building that, for the purposes of scheduling Easter, the Jump Equinox should exist fixed to the 14th day of the lunar month.