A users' guide for Episcopalians

Epiphany is a season celebrating the Biblical events traditionally understood as manifestations, or “epiphanies” of the divinity of the human being, Jesus. These include Jesus’ baptism & the wedding at Cana (both still commemorated in Eastern Orthodox Christianity on January 6th and in Western Christianity on the Sunday following the Epiphany), the calling of the disciples, various miracle accounts, and the Transfiguration.

For Anglicans the season starts on January 6th with the recollection of the story in Matthew’s Gospel of the arrival of the Wise Men (which may indeed have been women), also referred to as The Three Kings (although the Bible never says they were kings, nor how many there were, nor what their names were), or the Magi.