Christian calendar is wrong, says Pope: Blundering sixth-century monk was several years out in calculation of Jesus's birth date

The Christian calendar is based on a blunder by a sixth-century monk who was several years out in his calculation of Jesus’s birth date, the Pope has claimed. Benedict XVI blames the ‘mistake’ on Dionysius Exiguus, who is credited with inventing the modern calendar based on the Anno Domini (AD) era. The Pope’s views are revealed in the final part of his three-volume work on the life of Jesus, published yesterday.

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