Western Easter
Sunday, April 6, 1947
Gregorian computus. Golden number 10, epact 8, Paschal full moon April 5.
Easter 1947
Easter 1947: Sunday, April 6
In 1947 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 6, 1947. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 13, 1947, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 13, 1947
Julian computus: March 31 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1947 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1946 (April 21). They next fall on the same day in 1950 (April 9).
Western · Apr 6
Orthodox · Apr 13
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1947
Western feasts, 1947
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 18, 1947 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 19, 1947 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 30, 1947 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 3, 1947 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 4, 1947 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 5, 1947 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 6, 1947 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 7, 1947 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 15, 1947 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 25, 1947 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1947
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 24, 1947 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 6, 1947 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 11, 1947 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 13, 1947 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 22, 1947 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 1, 1947 | +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 1947?
April 6 is date 16 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 15 days after the earliest possible date and 19 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 78 fall on an earlier date than this one and 116 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1958, 1969, 1980, 2042, 2053, 2064. Before 1947, Western Easter last fell on April 6 in 1890; after 1947 it next does in 1958.
In the 1940s Western Easter ran from March 24 (1940) to April 25 (1943); 1947’s April 6 is the fifth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 6 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 13 is March 31 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1947. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 42 years and on a later one in 152 years; it falls on the same date in 1958, 1969, 2031, 2042, 2053, 2064.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1947
10Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1947 mod 19) + 1.
8Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 5Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 9Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 27), a Wednesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1947
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=9 b=19 c=47 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=15 i=11 k=3 l=0 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 129, and 129 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 5: month 4, day 5 + 1. April 6- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=3 b=1 c=9 d=6 e=3d + e + 114 = 123, and 123 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 30: Julian March 31. Plus 13 days: April 13
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.