Why is Christmas on December 25th?

Answer 1

Christmas was moved to December 25th to coincide with a pagan holiday. This got more pagans to celebrate Jesus' birthday. This move was one of the reasons why the church split in 1043. It was then that the Pope went to Rome and the Patriarch of the Orthodox church went to Constantinopole. == == * Christmas is on December 25 because the Roman Catholic Church established it to compete with pagan traditions for winter solstice that also celebrated near that date. Winter solstice is the passing of the shortest day, when days begin getting longer. Thus, early missionaries associated the bringer of light, Christ, with the coming of the light in the form of longer days and warmth. * Christmas is celebrated as the birth of Christ, however no one know what day he was born on, just sometime in December. In 350 AD Julius I, a Bishop of Rome, chose December 25th as Christmas's official day. == ==

Answer 2

they have Christmas on the 25th in most places because it is the nearest day to the birth of Jesus