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Sunday observance began before Quartodecimanism, while others have argued that Quartodecimanism was original. The Quartodecimans claimed that their traditions

and Melito, all of whom were Quartodecimans. Despite Polycrates convening a synod in Ephesus to declare Quartodecimanism official, later the tradition

in a paschal lamb typology, Quartodeciman thought is constituted as such. One of the issues raised is that Quartodeciman thought is the idea that Christian

they had learned from the apostles; for this the Latins called them Quartodecimans. Synods were held on the subject in various parts—in Judea under Theophilus

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Christian communities of Anatolia which persevered in the practice of the Quartodeciman celebration of Easter. Nothing is known of the date of his death, which

exercise of Roman authority over other churches, excommunicated the Quartodecimans for observing Easter on the 14th of Nisan, the date of the Jewish Passover

with Eastern and Western Christian churches being a notable example. Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, meaning fourteenth)

Anicetus. Quartodecimanism seems to have lingered into the 4th century, when Socrates of Constantinople recorded that some Quartodecimans were deprived

baptism, penance, church discipline and the celibacy of the clergy. The Quartodeciman controversy arose because Christians in the Roman province of Asia (Western