Western Easter
Sunday, April 23, 2000
Gregorian computus. Golden number 6, epact 24, Paschal full moon April 18.
Easter 2000
Easter 2000: Sunday, April 23
In 2000 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 23, 2000. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 30, 2000, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Julian computus: April 17 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 2000 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1990 (April 15). They next fall on the same day in 2001 (April 15).
Western · Apr 23
Orthodox · Apr 30
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 2000
Western feasts, 2000
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 7, 2000 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 8, 2000 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 16, 2000 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 20, 2000 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 21, 2000 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 22, 2000 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 23, 2000 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 24, 2000 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, June 1, 2000 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 11, 2000 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 2000
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 13, 2000 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 23, 2000 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 28, 2000 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 30, 2000 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 8, 2000 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 18, 2000 | +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 2000?
April 23 is date 33 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 32 days after the earliest possible date and 2 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 193 fall on an earlier date than this one and 4 fall on a later date. 3 other years in that span share the date: 1905, 1916, 2079. Before 2000, Western Easter last fell on April 23 in 1916; after 2000 it next does in 2079.
In the 2000s Western Easter ran from March 23 (2008) to April 23 (2000); 2000’s April 23 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 23 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 30 is April 17 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 2000. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 157 years and on a later one in 36 years; it falls on the same date in 1905, 1967, 1978, 1989, 2062, 2073, 2084.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 2000
6Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (2000 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 Tuesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 23Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 10), a Sunday.
The two algorithms, worked for 2000
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=5 b=20 c=0 d=5 e=0 f=1 g=6 h=29 i=0 k=0 l=3 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 146, and 146 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 22: month 4, day 22 + 1. April 23- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=5 c=5 d=20 e=6d + e + 114 = 140, and 140 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 16: Julian April 17. Plus 13 days: April 30
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.