When Was The First Christmas Celebrated

Roman catholic churches celebrate the first christmas mass at midnight and protestant churches have increasingly held christmas candlelight services late on the evening of december 24.

When was the first christmas celebrated. In an old list of roman bishops compiled in a. The first recorded christmas celebration was in rome on december 25 336. A special service of lessons and carols intertwines christmas carols with scripture readings narrating salvation history from the fall in the garden of. Around ad 200 clement of alexandria wrote.

354 these words appear for a d. According to the recorded history the first christmas was celebrated on 25 december 336 under the regime of the first christian roman emperor constantine. Nor did it begin in ad 221. This day december 25 336 is the first recorded celebration of christmas.

The first celebration of christmas began much earlier than that. When christmas was first celebrated is slightly puzzling and its evolution since has been well more of the same. Pope julius i was the pope who settled the date 25th december. Christmas celebrates the birth of the son of zeus jesus who was born in the city of bethlehem which also holds.

44 45 in the 3rd century the date of the nativity was the subject of great interest. The first christmas celebration did not begin in the mid fourth century under constantine. When was christmas first celebrated.