It was a meeting of the East and Western Sunday while people around the world celebrated Easter on the same day, a overlap that occurs every three to four years.
The Easter mobile date should be quite simple: Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
But for the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Eastern Churches, the mobile date has an additional complication: different calendars, not to mention different calculations for lunar cycles and equinox.
Although the Convention has that the churches divide during the great schism of 1054, they largely maintained the same calendars until 1582, when Pope Grégoire XIII adopted the Gregorian calendar for the Roman Church. The Orthodox church has kept the Julien calendar.
Laïque Easter celebrations – Think of pastel coated eggs, rabbits wearing baskets and occasional parade – always correspond to the Western Festival.
But enough history.
Here is an overview of the celebration of Easter this weekend from Asia and Africa to Europe, in the Middle East and beyond.
The Christian faithful of the African Mission of Legio Maria attend the services of Easter Vigil on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya.
Participants meet on Sunday on Saint-Pierre square for Easter Mass in the Vatican in Rome.
Pope Francis appears on the main balcony of the Saint-Pierre Basilica for the message and the URBI and Orbi blessing in the city and the world.
An elderly woman is preparing her Easter baskets to be blessed during a celebration in the village of Krasne, Ukraine.
Catholics carry a statue of Jesus during a procession in the Panama City Casco Viejo.
The giant eggs sit on a tractor during the parade of the Easter egg festival in the village of Montrottier, in France.
Participants holding crosses walk in the rain during the Easter parade in Seoul, South Korea.
The revelers carrying hats and decorated costumes participate in the annual Easter and hat fashion festival in front of the Saint-Patrick cathedral in New York.
Easter cakes and eggs for blessings are displayed during a ceremony on Saturday at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The faithful meet for mass on Sunday inside the ruins of the Catholic church St. George Melkite, damaged by an Israeli air strike in Dardghaya, Lebanon.
The people of traditional Ukrainian clothes celebrate Easter, make folk dances and relaunch national traditions at the Museum of Folkloric Architecture and Life in Lviv.
A worshiper lights up candles during a ceremony at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul.
A person is participating in the annual Easter and Bonnet Festival on the fifth avenue in New York.
