According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Christmas is not included in the list of Christian holidays of Irenaeus and Tertullian in the list on the same topic, which are lists oldest known. The earliest evidence of the concern about the timing of Christmas is in Alexandria, near the year 200 AD, when Clement of Alexandria indicates that certain Egyptian theologians "very curious" assign not only the year but the actual day of Christ's birth as 25 Pachon (20 May) 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. By the time the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Alexandrian Church had already fixed the Díes nativitatis et epifaníae.
Pope Julius I called 350 the birth of Christ was celebrated on 25 December, 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. The feast was introduced in Antioch about 380. In Jerusalem, Egeria, in the fourth century, witnessed the presentation banquet of forty days after January 6, February 15, which must have been the timing of birth. The December feast reached Egypt in the fifth century
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