A.D. Victor

No wonder, then, not one of these religions, sects and denominations, except the small and persecuted Church founded by Jesus Christ (A.D. 31), starting with that 120, believes God, which means these others do not believe what God says in His Word.
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In A.D. 33 two years after Jesus Christ from heaven founded the Church of God on that Day of Pentecost, the deacon Philip, who later became an evangelist, went down to Samaria and preached Christ's gospel.
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About 154 A.D., after the death of the apostle John, a disciple of his, Polycarp, waged a controversy over the Passover-Easter question with Anicetus, bishop of the Roman church which followed heresies introduced by Simon.

Still later, another disciple of Christ's true Christianity, Polycrates, waged a still hotter controversy over the same Passover-Easter question when in 197 A.D. Victor, another bishop of Rome, threatened to excommunicate those Christians who insisted on keeping the Passover on the 14th of Nisan.This theological battle was called the Quartodeciman (Latin for 14th) Controversy.
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In A.D. 325, the Roman Emperor Constantine called the Nicene Council to settle these controversies.Constantine was not then a "Christian" (though his mother was), but as political ruler he assumed control.The Council approved both the Easter-Sunday doctrine and the Trinity.Constantine, then civil ruler, made it a LAW.But he was not able to make it TRUTH!
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Tertullian, "the first great writer of Latin Christianity" first formulated the concept of a "trinitas" (trinity) around 200 A.D. to explain the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as one God contrasted with monotheistic Judaism and polytheistic paganism (see Note-8).Theologians of the counterfeit Christianity spawned by Simon the Sorcerer were promoting it vigorously along with the pagan Easter.

These words were contained in a letter that Bishop Ireneaus wrote to Victor the Bishop of Rome in about 190 A.D. Victor had excommunicated all the churches in Asia because they celebrated the Paschal Fast (The Celebration of Christ's Death and Resurrection) on the 14th of Nissan, rather than on the Friday and Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox as did the rest of the churches. Ireneaus admonished Victor to not destroy the unity of the Church over such a thing.
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[4] After decades of ambiguity concerning this phrase, in1991 the Faith and Order Commission, released a study entitled, "Confessing One Faith," which explained and recommended the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 325 A.D. as a summary of the apostolic faith.

Around 80 A.D. a man named Polycarp became a Christian. He was a godly man who served as a bishop of Smyrna. He was well acquainted with the apostle John and with some of the other disciples.
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Around 180 A.D. Victor, Bishop of Rome, attempted by threats of excommunication to force the churches in Asia not to observe the passover on the 14th Nisan but to conform to the Roman practice of celebrating "passover" on the first Sunday after the true passover. In his answer to Victor after deliberation by a forum of the bishops of Asia, (these included the well known churches of the Revelation) Polycrates makes mention of the example of many of noted saints and original disciples of Christ. He is quoted as saying, "For there were seven, my relatives bishops, and I am the eighth; and my relatives always observed the day when the people threw away the leaven. I, therefore, brethren, am now sixty five years in the Lord, who having conferred with the brethren throughout the world, and having studied the whole of the sacred Scriptures, am not at all alarmed at those things which I amthreatened, to intimidate me. For they who are greater than I, have said, 'we ought to obey God rather than men'". Victor then proceeded to take action against all the bishops represented by Polycrates calling them heretics and publishing letters of excommunication. However many churches were sympathetic to the Asian churches' cause and made strong protests to Victor. The conversation between Anicetus and Polycarp (mentioned above) was quoted by Irenaeus in the defence of the Asian churches led by Polycrates. Victor was powerless to enforce his excommunication order.

Advocating the celebration of the Sunday following the Passover (Easter) were Bishops Anticetus (ca. AD 154) and Victor (AD 189-199) of Rome.Trying to preserve the traditional Passover date of Nisan 14 (called the "Quartodeciman Passover") were Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus and representative of the Asian churches, and Polycarp, close friend of the Apostle John before his death.

The motivation for changing the day of celebration was a strong anti-Jewish sentiment brewing in the Roman Empire, especially in Rome itself.This powerful animosity toward anything Jewish strongly moved Christians to sever their ties with traditional Jewish customs in order to demonstrate to the Roman Empire their detachment from their Jewish roots.Something as simple as changing a day of celebration would have a profound impact of proving the division of the two sects.

According to Eusebius, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (from ca. A.D. 176), acted as mediator in the conflict between Victor and Polycrates.We find the probable time for the origin of Easter celebrations in a letter from Irenaeus to Victor.
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Around 180 A.D. Victor, Bishop of Rome, attempted by threats of excommunication to force the churches in Asia not to observe the passover on the 14th Nisan but to conform to the Roman practice of celebrating "passover" on the first Sunday after the true passover (we call that Easter Sunday today).

We can see the importance of the Roman Church in this matter by seeing part of a letter written in about AD 196 by Polycrates to Bishop Victor of Rome: "I could mention the bishops who are present, whom you required me to summon and I did so."(Eusebius, HE 5, 24, 8.) It is most revealing to see how Polycrates obeyed the order of Victor, despite the fact that they were in violent opposition on the very subject about which the council was required.However, ultimately, Polycrates, in company with many churches including the Eastern churches of Asia, refused to bow to the desire of Victor, preferring instead to continue the Passover celebration of the Bible.

Finally, Bishop Victor of Rome sent out letters threatening to excommunicate those churches refusing to follow his mandate, namely, to keep Easter instead of the Passover.This new tool, excommunication, had the desired effect, and many vacillating Christians began observing Easter instead of the Jewish Passover.Nevertheless, Victor finally did excommunicate the entire Asian block of churches because of their refusal to keep Easter.

In his answer to Victor after deliberation by a forum of the bishops of Asia, (these included the well known churches of the Revelation) Polycrates makes mention of the example of many of noted saints and original disciples of Christ.He is quoted as saying, "For there were seven, my relatives bishops, and I am the eighth; and my relatives always observed the day when the people threw away the leaven.I, therefore, brethren, am now sixty five years in the Lord, who having conferred with the brethren throughout the world, and having studied the whole of the sacred Scriptures, am not at all alarmed at those things which I am threatened, to intimidate me. For they who are greater than I, have said, 'we ought to obey God rather than men'".Victor then proceeded to take action against all the bishops represented by Polycrates calling them heretics and publishing letters of excommunication.However many churches were sympathetic to the Asian churches' cause and made strong protests to Victor.The conversation between Anicetus and Polycarp (mentioned above) was quoted by Irenaeus in the defence of the Asian churches led by Polycrates.Victor was powerless to enforce his excommunication order.
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Advocating the celebration of the Sunday following the Passover (Easter) were Bishops Anticetus (ca. AD 154) and Victor (AD 189-199) of Rome.As we saw above trying to preserve the traditional Passover date of Nisan 14 (called the "Quartodeciman Passover") were Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus and representative of the Asian churches, and Polycarp, close friend of the Apostle John before his death.The motivation for changing the day of celebration was a strong anti-Jewish sentiment brewing in the Roman Empire, especially in Rome itself.This powerful animosity toward anything Jewish strongly moved Christians to sever their ties with traditional Jewish customs in order to demonstrate to the Roman Empire their detachment from their Jewish roots.Something as simple as changing a day of celebration would have a profound impact of proving the division of the two sects.According to Eusebius, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (from ca. A.D. 176), acted as mediator in the conflict between Victor and Polycrates.We find the probable time for the origin of Easter celebrations in a letter from Irenaeus to Victor.