What year was Christmas desinated as Dec 25th?

Question

When was Christ's birth celebrated before Dec 25th was made the official holiday?

Answer 1

I believe Christ's birth date to be April 6th. That's why the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints always has their worldwide conference the 1st Sunday in April.

Answer 2

St. John Chrysostom, writing in 386, relates that St. Cyril
at the request of Pope Julius (337 to 352) made a strict inquiry as to the exact date. Cyril reported that the Western Churches had always held it to be December 25. It is true that othe communities of Christians preferred other dates.
As St. Clement says, the matter was very uncertain. Nevertheless, Pope Julius was so far satisfied with the report of Cyril that about the middle of the fourth century he established the festival at Rome on December 25. Before the end of the century that date had been accepted by all the nations of Christendom.

Answer 3

It took almost 200 years for our country to move away from this Puritan view and enjoy the holidays once more. Louisiana was the first state to make Christmas a holiday in 1830, and many states soon followed. Congress did not make Christmas a federal holiday until 1870.

Answer 4

It took almost 200 years for our country to move away from this Puritan view and enjoy the holidays once more. Louisiana was the first state to make Christmas a holiday in 1830, and many states soon followed. Congress did not make Christmas a federal holiday until 1870.

Answer 5

It is unknown exactly when or how December 25 became associated with Jesus' birth. The New Testament does not give a specific date.[12] Several scholars have suggested that Sextus Julius Africanus gave this date in Chronografiai, a now lost reference book for Christians written in AD 221.[12] This date is nine months after the traditional date of the Incarnation (March 25), now celebrated as the Feast of the Annunciation.[18] March 25 was also considered to be the date of the vernal equinox and therefore the creation of Adam.[18] Early Christians believed March 25 was also the date Jesus was crucified.[18] The Christian idea that Jesus was conceived on the same date that he died on the cross is consistent with a Jewish belief that a prophet lived an integral number of years.[18]

The identification of the birthdate of Jesus did not at first inspire feasting or celebration. Tertullian does not mention it as a major feast day in the Church of Roman Africa. In 245, the theologian Origen denounced the idea of celebrating Jesus' birthday "as if he were a king pharaoh." He contended that only sinners, not saints, celebrated their birthdays.[6]

The earliest reference to the celebration of Christmas is in the Calendar of Filocalus, an illuminated manuscript compiled in Rome in 354.[2][19] In the east, meanwhile, Christians celebrated the birth of Jesus as part of Epiphany (January 6), although this festival focused on the baptism of Jesus.[20]

Christmas was promoted in the east as part of the revival of Catholicism following the death of the pro-Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The feast was introduced to Constantinople in 379, to Antioch in about 380, and to Alexandria in about 430. Christmas was especially controversial in 4th century Constantinople, being the "fortress of Arianism," as Edward Gibbon described it. The feast disappeared after Gregory of Nazianzus resigned as bishop in 381, although it was reintroduced by John Chrysostom in about 400.[2]

Answer 6

Christmas is a public holiday which is believed to date back to around 2004 BC. However, it is believed that Tutankhamun tried to permanently ban Christmas because of the fact that he always had trouble trying to find a parking spot in Kmart at Christmas time, but noone ever listened to him because he always acted like a mong. Christians dislike Christmas because many people have the inncorrect opinion that Santa is black. Since all Christians dislike all minorities (including Christians), they hate Christmas's ideal of a black Santa.

Christmas was a pagan then Christian holiday where Christians gave each other gifts and celebrated the birth of the Lord, and they even let atheists celebrate it as well. However, as of 1998 the National Atheist-Secular Progressive Council of America (also known as the Supreme Court) has officially delcared Christmas to be defunct as we all now celebrate 'Holiday'. The event is popular for the annual genocide of turkeys, and the waste of elecricity on crappy lighting.

Unfortunately, Christmas inevitably leads to Boxing Day.

Answer 7

2007

Answer 8

certain, of course - Messianics worship Jesus, only as their fellow Christians do. each of the Messianics i comprehend rejoice Christmas, huge time. only because a particular Christian team chucks in some Jewish rituals, it would not cause them to 'messianic jews'. I want human beings would do not ignore that! They lie by claiming to be 'jews' - it extremely is why some thing else human beings might want to positioned quote marks round 'messianic jews' - in the different case we are colluding of their lie. there is not any 'messianic' team IN Judaism. To the asker: evaluate this: because you comprehend that NO JEWS worship Jesus or rejoice Jesus, you may want to comprehend that Messianics, ergo, aren't any more JEWS. that's only common sense.

Answer 9

Some believe it could have 221 A.D., but the reference seems to be lost.

Answer 10

Sometime in the middle ages