Who sets the date for Easter?

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: March 13, 2008| Author: Janean Justham For the Deseret Morning News | Copyright information

This year, we will celebrate the earliest Easter of our lifetimes. Easter hasn't fallen on March 23 since 1913, and it won't again until 2160.

I don't know about you, but I won't be around then.

Interestingly, in three years, we will have the latest Easter those of us born after 1943 have ever experienced -- on April 24.

Have you ever wondered who sets the date for Easter, the holiday hardest to anticipate? Most of us just wait to see it appear on our calendars before we p...

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