I’m going to be famous worldwide for celebrating Easter on March 22nd 2026:

As a 33-year-old autistic man living in Kingston-upon-Thames, I created this petition as a way to take back control and to get my story heard worldwide.

For sake of comparison, there is an electrician named Andy Park who lives in Melksham, Wiltshire and is famous for celebrating Christmas every single day and is known as “Mr Christmas” although it has not been confirmed whether he is on the autistic spectrum so I want my story to be as famous as his!

We have made a promising start in this global campaign and reaching over 80 signatures, but we need as much support as possible and we need as many supporters to “chip-in” what they can to maximise our chance of our petition winning, and for as many supporters sharing this petition on different platforms (e.g. Facebook and WhatsApp) to get even more signatures.

While it may be too late for policymakers to manually change the date of Easter for 2026, thankfully (due to leap years) we have 11 years to plan for policymakers to potentially change the date for 2037 and any forthcoming year after that. 

Unless we make this change and get as many signatures as possible, the earliest Catholic/Protestant Easter will ever get for current generations is 25th March (which occurs in 2035 and 2046), as even the third-earliest date (24th March in the Gregorian calendar) won’t occur until the year 2391.

While for Orthodox Christians there is a gap between 1980 and 2143 for March 24th O.S in the Julian Calendar, this is minuscule compared to the nearly 500 year gap between 1940 and 2391 for March 24th N.S on the Gregorian calendar.

While March 25th may be considered an “early Easter” by the general population, for an autistic man wanting to experience the earliest possible date, March 25th is too late, even next year’s March 28th date is way too late to be an early Easter despite being less than a week from the earliest possible date! 

Not just the extremely early dates, but the extremely late dates also occur twice within the next 30 years for Orthodox Christians, with Orthodox Easter hitting it’s third-latest late (April 23 O.S/May 6 N.S) in 2040 and it’s second-latest date (April 24 O.S/May 7 N.S) in 2051.

For an Orthodox Christian born in 1975 and dying in 2055, they will see all their:

• Earliest: 2010
• Second-earliest: 2037 and 2048
• Third-earliest: 1980
• Fourth-earliest: 1991
• Median: 2041
• Fourth-latest: 2002, 2013 and the recent 2024
• Third-latest: 2040
• Second-latest: 2051
• Latest: 1983

dates!

This is in addition to common “average” Easter dates such as March 28th/April 10th N.S and April 5th on the Julian Calendar (like this year’s Gregorian date) which falls on April 18th of the modern calendar (which last occurred in 1993, the year I was born). 

The last time Orthodox Easter fell on March 22 O.S prior to 2010 was in 1915 and the next time will be in 2105 (which will be April 5th N.S due to the lack of leap day in 2100). 

This means that an Orthodox Christian born in 1912 and dying in 2012 would see their earliest date twice within their lives, likewise an Orthodox Christian born in 2007 has already seen their earliest date once and has a slim chance of seeing it again in 2105, as well as the latest date in 2078 so it is no illusion, March 22 (Old Style) DOES occur MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY than Gregorian March 22 for Western Easter!

Of course, every few years Orthodox Christians also get to experience the unique phenomenon of their Easter coinciding with the Western date which happened most recently last year, 2025. What is also unique to this is that these dates often coincide with their extreme early dates (e.g. 2010 and 2037) or Western Easter’s latest dates (e.g. 2011 and 2038) creating a rather unique, rare overlap of two consecutive years with both Easter dates coinciding. 

Although the Easter dates coincide every few years, the two dates are actually at very different points within their respective date ranges – for instance April 20th (which occurred in 2025) is quite late within the Western range, but almost exactly in the middle of the Orthodox Easter date range and frequently falls on the seemingly “rare” Western Gregorian dates like April 24th.

With regards to schools and Orthodox Christmas, extending the Christmas break whilst removing a week from the summer holidays will not only benefit British Orthodox Christians, but also makes UK school holiday lengths more evenly distributed throughout the year!

As a UK resident, I observed Shrove Tuesday on Tuesday 3rd February and Mothering Sunday on Sunday 1st March. Orthodox Easter was on its earliest date (April 4 N.S/March 22 O.S) just 16 years ago and will fall on its second-earliest date twice and the second-latest/third-latest dates twice within the next 30 years,

ITS NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!! 

ITS NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!

Lastly, I am avoiding almost all shops at the moment because I don’t want to see signs with Easter on the “wrong” day (April 5) and before Christmas 2025 when I was Christmas shopping, I purchased over 20 customisable “birthdays” diaries on Amazon.co.uk which cost me nearly £200 which I gave to family and friends (including one of my fellow supporters who signed this petition).