Dionysius Exiguus

American  

[eg-zig-yoo-uhs, ek-sig-] / ɛgˈzɪg ju əs, ɛkˈsɪg- /

noun

1. died a.d. 556?, Scythian monk, chronologist, and scholar: devised the current system of reckoning the Christian era.

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Dionysius Exiguus British  

/ ɛɡˈzɪɡjʊəs /

noun

1. died ?556 _ad , Scythian monk and scholar, who is believed to have introduced the current method of reckoning dates on the basis of the Christian era

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Dionysius Exiguus

In 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus wanted to pinpoint the date for Easter.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2019

The calendar we use today, which commences with the birth of Christ and was created by a Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth century monk, may be mistaken.

From Time ● Nov. 22, 2012

When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified.

From Time Magazine Archive

So in 532 a monk named Dionysius Exiguus proposed that they should abandon the old way of counting the years, and adopt the time of the birth of Christ as a starting-point.

From Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The African collection has not come to us directly: we have two incomplete and confused arrangements of it, in two collections, that of the Hispana and that of Dionysius Exiguus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various