Western Easter
Sunday, April 25, 1943
Gregorian computus. Golden number 6, epact 24, Paschal full moon April 18.
Easter 1943
Easter 1943: Sunday, April 25
In 1943 Easter falls on Sunday, April 25, 1943 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 25, 1943
Julian computus: April 12 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 25 in 1943. They last fell on the same day in 1942 (April 5). They next fall on the same day in 1946 (April 21).
Western · Apr 25
Orthodox · Apr 25
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1943
Western feasts, 1943
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 9, 1943 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 10, 1943 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 18, 1943 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 22, 1943 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 23, 1943 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 24, 1943 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 25, 1943 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 26, 1943 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, June 3, 1943 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 13, 1943 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1943
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 8, 1943 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 18, 1943 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 23, 1943 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 25, 1943 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 3, 1943 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 13, 1943 | +49 days |
Each date is Easter Sunday plus or minus a fixed number of days; the offsets and their sources are on the about page. Observance varies by church and by country. Whether a feast is a day off work is a matter of each country’s law: Holidays lists each country’s public holidays, off the open Nager.Date database.
How early is Easter in 1943?
April 25 is the latest date Western Easter can take. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 199 fall on an earlier date than this one and 0 fall on a later date. One other year in that span shares the date: 2038. Before 1943, Western Easter last fell on April 25 in 1886; after 1943 it next does in 2038.
In the 1940s Western Easter ran from March 24 (1940) to April 25 (1943); 1943’s April 25 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 25 in 1 year, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 25 is April 12 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1943. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 124 years and on a later one in 70 years; it falls on the same date in 1954, 1965, 1976, 2038, 2049, 2060.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1943
6Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1943 mod 19) + 1.
24Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 18Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 23Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 10), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1943
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=5 b=19 c=43 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=29 i=10 k=3 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 148, and 148 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 24: month 4, day 24 + 1. April 25- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=3 b=4 c=5 d=20 e=1d + e + 114 = 135, and 135 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 11: Julian April 12. Plus 13 days: April 25
How the date of Easter is calculated explains each letter. The dates on this page agree with the US Census Bureau table (Western), the 5ko.free.fr tables (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.