Orthodox Easter in 2023 will be April 16, and Catholic Easter will be April 9. Easter is a variable date holiday, not a fixed date like Christmas, and the day it falls on varies by an average of 14-15 days from year to year.

This year, the Orthodox Easter – the holiday of the Resurrection of Christ – will fall on April 16, in 2022 it will fall on April 24, and the Catholic Easter – on April 9. The last time Catholic and Orthodox Easter fell on the same day was in 2017.

Orthodox Easter – statistics about the date

Easter is a variable date holiday, not a fixed date like Christmas, and the day it falls on varies by an average of 14-15 days from year to year. Easter can fall no earlier than April 4 and no later than May 8. Over the past 20 years, Easter has fallen 16 times in April and 4 times in May.

If we take the “Easter” dates for the last 80 years, then the earliest Easter fell in 2010, when the Resurrection was celebrated on the night of April 3 to 4. At the opposite pole, Easter fell no later than 1983: on May 8, and it will happen again only in 2078.

If we take the period of the next 20 years: 2023 – 2042, then Easter will fall only four times in May and 16 times in April.

When will Easter be in the period 2023-2027

• 2023 – April 16
• 2024 – May 5
• 2025 – April 20
• 2026 – April 12
• 2027 – May 2

The name of the holiday comes from the Hebrew word Pesach, which meant the holiday of the liberation of the Jews from Egypt and their return to their homeland. The form Paști/Paște entered the Romanian language through the Latin-Byzantine line: Paschae.

How many days off do we have for Easter in 2023?

In 2023, Romanians will have 15 legal holidays according to the Labor Code, three of which will fall on the first and second days of Easter, as well as on Good Friday:

• January 1 and 2 – New Year (Sunday, Monday);
• January 24 – Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Tuesday);
• April 14 – Good Friday;
• April 16 and 17 – the first and second day of Orthodox Easter (Sunday, Monday);
• May 1 – Labor Day (Monday);
• June 1 – Children’s Protection Day (Thursday);
• June 4 and 5 – the first and second day of Pentecost (Sunday, Monday);
• August 15 – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tuesday);
• November 30 – Andriy Pervozvanny (Thursday);
• December 1 – National Day of Romania (Friday);
• December 25 and 26 – the first and second day of Christmas (Monday, Tuesday).

The Labor Code also provides for two legal days off for each of the 3 annual religious holidays declared by such legal religious cults, other than Christian, for persons belonging to them. Days off are provided by the employer. Employees who belong to a legal, Christian religious cult are given days off on Good Friday – the last Friday before Easter, the first and second day of Easter, the first and second day of Pentecost, depending on the number of their leave. celebrated by that cult.

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