Oh, Lord. We've heard of mistakes but this one is truly Great. According to the Pope, the Christian calendar is years off the mark - because of one monk's bad maths. In his new biography of Christ, ...

The terms Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) were used to label the number of years in the Julian Calendar. This idea was passed on to the Gregorian calendar – a refined version adopted in 1582 ...

The Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them. — Esther 9:23 In ad 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus implemented a system of dating based on the ...

The Christian calendar has Jesus’ birth year wrong, Pope Benedict XVI claims in a new book. The mistake was made by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus who overshot Christ’s birth by “several years,” the ...

The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed. The 'mistake' was made ...

It was fascinating to hear from writer Susan Levine of the venerable Washington Post (The Morning Call, Dec. 7) that we have a monk named Dionysius Exiguus to thank for the controversy over the ...

The answer to this, and indeed the reason why we are about to begin a year known as AD 2004, lies in the work of Dionysius Exiguus ("Denis the Lesser"), a monk working in Rome more than 1,400 years ...

It is a shame that the fascinating article on zero (19 November, p 41) did not mention the 6th-century monk and scholar Dionysius Exiguus. Although he wimped out big time by not having a year zero ...

It amazes me that The Courant printed a letter claiming that the new millennium began on Jan. 1, 2000 [Jan. 7, “Millennium Date Was Correct”]. Would The Courant print a letter claiming that the Sun ...

The 'mistake' was made by a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book 'Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives', ...