The head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians ... a few miles northwest of Tampa. Epiphany in some Eastern churches commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River; in Western ...

To help celebrate the church’s North American bicentennial in 1994 and its birthplace in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art launched an exhibit of Orthodox religious artifacts from ...

On January 19, the Orthodox ... The feast of Epiphany as a single holiday of the Nativity of Christ and the Baptism of the Lord has been preserved by the ancient Eastern churches - the Armenian ...

But for Orthodox Churches in Russia, Serbia and Ukraine that follow the Julian calendar, Epiphany is celebrated on Jan. 19, as their Christmas Eve falls on Jan. 6. It originated in the Eastern ...