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The earliest evidence of concern about the date of Christmas is in Alexandria
around 200 AC when Clement of Alexandria indicates that certain
Egyptian theologians "very curious"
assign not only the year, if not the real day of Christ's birth
as 25 pashons Coptic (May 20) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus
From 221 in the work Chronographiai Sextus Julius Africanus
popularized the December 25 as the date of the birth of Jesus
For the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325
the Alexandrian Church had set the "Díes Nativitatis et epifaníae"
Pope Julius I in 350 asked that the birth of Christ
was celebrated on December 25th which was decreed by Pope Liberius in 354
The first mention of a Christmas feast at that time in Constantinople
dating from 379 under Gregory Nazianzen