[eldoradude]

Euthymius (“the Great”; 377–473 C.E.)

They could use jewish dates - 4137-4233 or 377-473 AD instead of the C.E. crap.

[sphinx]

If they used Jewish dates on the years, they would create a pointless need to translate every date from one calendar to the other. The use of C.E. is a reasonable compromise which actually incorporates the Christian calendar as a base, changing the label but not the years.