Western Easter
Sunday, April 22, 1984
Gregorian computus. Golden number 9, epact 27, Paschal full moon April 16.
Easter 1984
Easter 1984: Sunday, April 22
In 1984 Easter falls on Sunday, April 22, 1984 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 22, 1984
Julian computus: April 9 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 22 in 1984. They last fell on the same day in 1980 (April 6). They next fall on the same day in 1987 (April 19).
Western · Apr 22
Orthodox · Apr 22
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1984
Western feasts, 1984
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 6, 1984 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 7, 1984 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 15, 1984 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 19, 1984 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 20, 1984 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 21, 1984 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 22, 1984 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 23, 1984 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 31, 1984 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 10, 1984 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1984
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 5, 1984 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 15, 1984 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 20, 1984 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 22, 1984 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 31, 1984 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 10, 1984 | +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 1984?
April 22 is date 32 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 31 days after the earliest possible date and 3 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 188 fall on an earlier date than this one and 8 fall on a later date. 4 other years in that span share the date: 1962, 1973, 2057, 2068. Before 1984, Western Easter last fell on April 22 in 1973; after 1984 it next does in 2057.
In the 1980s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1989) to April 22 (1984); 1984’s April 22 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 22 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 22 is April 9 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1984. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 105 years and on a later one in 91 years; it falls on the same date in 1900, 1979, 2063, 2074.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1984
9Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1984 mod 19) + 1.
27Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 16Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 20Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 7), a Friday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1984
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=8 b=19 c=84 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=26 i=21 k=0 l=5 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 145, and 145 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 21: month 4, day 21 + 1. April 22- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=3 c=8 d=17 e=1d + e + 114 = 132, and 132 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 8: Julian April 9. Plus 13 days: April 22
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.