Western Easter
Sunday, April 13, 1952
Gregorian computus. Golden number 15, epact 3, Paschal full moon April 10.
Easter 1952
Easter 1952: Sunday, April 13
In 1952 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 13, 1952. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 20, 1952, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 20, 1952
Julian computus: April 7 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1952 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1950 (April 9). They next fall on the same day in 1953 (April 5).
Western · Apr 13
Orthodox · Apr 20
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1952
Western feasts, 1952
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 26, 1952 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 27, 1952 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 6, 1952 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 10, 1952 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 11, 1952 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 12, 1952 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 13, 1952 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 14, 1952 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 22, 1952 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 1, 1952 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1952
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 3, 1952 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 13, 1952 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 18, 1952 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 20, 1952 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 29, 1952 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 8, 1952 | +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 1952?
April 13 is date 23 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 22 days after the earliest possible date and 12 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 126 fall on an earlier date than this one and 71 fall on a later date. 3 other years in that span share the date: 1941, 2031, 2036. Before 1952, Western Easter last fell on April 13 in 1941; after 1952 it next does in 2031.
In the 1950s Western Easter ran from March 25 (1951) to April 21 (1957); 1952’s April 13 is the eighth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 13 in 2 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 20 is April 7 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1952. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 92 years and on a later one in 102 years; it falls on the same date in 1919, 1930, 1941, 2014, 2025, 2036.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1952
15Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1952 mod 19) + 1.
3Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 10Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 14Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 1), a Monday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1952
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=14 b=19 c=52 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=20 i=13 k=0 l=2 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 136, and 136 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 12: month 4, day 12 + 1. April 13- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=6 c=14 d=11 e=5d + e + 114 = 130, and 130 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 6: Julian April 7. Plus 13 days: April 20
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.