I was just wondering when is the greek christmas... I have heard its like 10 days after the american christmas.. meaning it worul be what jan 7th?? any help would be greatly appreciated.. thank you...
2007-01-06 15:40:33 · 6 answers · asked by babygurl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am Greek and I should say we (as a mostly orthodox christian country) celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December EVERY YEAR, for reasons related to what the answerer before me said (not exactly that, but anyway, I do not remember details right now). On the 6th of January we celebrate that Christ was baptized and on 07 we honour the Saint John -the Baptist of Christ. Easter is moveable and celebrated always in spring (there are some interesting details about this, too).
2007-01-08 19:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by supersonic332003 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually - this year Greek (Orthodox) Christmas hit dead on with Western Christmas (what we know as Dec. 25). Orthodox dates for holy days are calculated slightly differently. And to the above - January 7th this year is the Synaxis of John the Baptist (not the Holy Nativity)
In Western Christianity, Christmas is an "Immovable Feast", its date is fixed as Dec. 25. Orthodox Christmas, on the other hand is a movable feast, meaning that several variable factors can move the date ever so slightly. This year it is head on with Western Easter so the Orthodox have already celebrated Christmas.
Similarly with Easter - Orthodox use a different calculation method which often yields a date that is one or two weeks after the date of Western Catholic Easter. Sometimes the two calendars hit the exact same dates (as occurs this year).
2007-01-06 15:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by OrthoAng 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember celebrating Xmas with a family in Crete (part of Greece, of course) on December 25th.
I found this googling Greek Christmas:
"The Greek Orthodox Church, like the Christian Church, celebrates the birth of Christ on December 25. That date was picked because on the same day in the Mediterranean area they used to celebrate a Persian god, Mithras, who was the god of the Sun."
2007-01-06 15:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by barry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jan 7 is Greek Orthodox Christmas. Also Russian Orthodox Christmas.
2007-01-06 15:43:39 · answer #4 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I could be wrong but the date of the pagan celebration is Dec 25. The cebration is about the birth of some mythological creature from a stone boulder.
2007-01-06 15:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by julie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Silicon Friday...January 19th.
Oh, sorry, I thought you said "geek".
2007-01-06 15:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋