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:"... as of the fifteenth day of the month of January last past, in the last fourth [[Indiction]], '''in the year six thousand one hundred and ninety [6190]''', ..."<ref>''The Rudder (Pedalion)'': Of the metaphorical ship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of the Orthodox Christians, or all the sacred and divine canons of the holy and renowned Apostles, of the holy Councils, ecumenical as well as regional, and of individual fathers, as embodied in the original Greek text, for the sake of authenticity, and explained in the vernacular by way of rendering them more intelligible to the less educated. Comp. Agapius a Hieromonk and Nicodemus a Monk. First printed and published A.D.1800. Trans. D. Cummings, from the 5th edition published by John Nicolaides (Kesisoglou the Caesarian) in Athens, Greece in 1908, (Chicago: The Orthodox Christian Educational Society, 1957; Repr., New York, N.Y.: Luna Printing Co., 1983).</ref>
When Russia received Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium, she inherited the Orthodox Calendar based on the ''Creation Era''. In AD 1492 / 7000 AM there were millennialist movements in Moscow due to the end of the church calendar. After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the ''Creation Era'' continued to be used by Russia (translated into Slavonic) until 1700, when it was changed to the [[Julian Calendar]] by Peter the Great.<ref>Prof. 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 still forms the basis of traditional Orthodox calendars up to today. The year AD 2000 was 7508 AM. The September 2008 marked the beginning of the year 7516 of this era began in September 2008.
Augustine goes on to say that the ancient Greek chronology "does not exceed the true account of the duration of the world as it is given in our documents [i.e. the Scriptures], which are truly sacred."
'''St. Hippolytus'''
[[w:Hippolytus of Rome|St. Hippolytus of Rome]] (ca.170-235) maintained on Scriptural grounds that the Lord's birth took place in 5500 AM, and held that the birth of Christ took place on a passover day, deducing that its month-date was [[March 25|25 March]]<ref>George Ogg. ''Hippolytus and the Introduction of the Christian Era.'' in '''Vigiliae Christianae''', Vol.16, No.1 (Mar., 1962), p.6.</ref> (see ''Alexandrian Era'' below). He gave the following intervals: