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The reason that the Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas twelve
days later than the West, is that they never adopted the Gregorian
calendar.  In the 1500s Pope Gregory XIII reformed the Julian
calendar by decreeing that a century year would not be a leap year
unless it was divisilbe by 400.  At this time ten days were dropped
from that year to correct for accumulated error.  Since that time
the error in the Julian calendar has increased and the Orthodox
Christmas has gotten further behind.
			Herb Norton