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Several systems were calculated and used by [[w:Category:Byzantine historians|Byzantine authors]], to whom the [[indiction]] was the standard measurement of time. By the eleventh century a unified system was widely recognized, according to which the world was created 5508 years before the [[Incarnation]], so that the date of [[Jesus Christ|Christ's]] birth was in the year 5509 ''Annus Mundi'' (AM) - the year since the creation of the world.<ref>Paul Stephenson. ''"Translations from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c.700-1204: [http://homepage.mac.com/paulstephenson/trans/scyl2.html John Skylitzes, "Synopsis Historion"'': ''The Year 6508, in the 13th Indiction: the Byzantine dating system]"''. November 2006.</ref>.
After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the Byzantine calendar continued to be used by Russia (translated into Slavonic) until 1700, when it was changed to the Julian Calendar by Peter the Great.<ref>Charles Ellis (University of Bristol). [http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5547 Russian Calendar (988-1917)]. ''The Literary Encyclopedia''. 25 September, 2008.</ref>. It is still used by a number of Orthodox Churches{{citation}}<ref>Some [[Old Calendarists|Old Calendarist]] Churches refer to this system.</ref>. The year AD 2000 was 7508 AM.
==Church's Position==
