Epiphany season Epiphany season The Epiphany season, also known as Epiphanytide, is in some churches recognized as a liturgical period following the Christmas season (Christmastide). It begins on the day of Epiphany, and ends at various points as defined by those churches. In Advent 2000, the Church of England introduced into its liturgy an optional Epiphany season by approving the "Common Worship" series of services as an alternative to those in the "Book of Common Prayer", defining Epiphanytide as lasting from the feast of the Epiphany to Candlemas. An official publication of the Church of England states: "The Christmas season is often
Epiphany (holiday) the Sunday occurring after 6 January". Before the 1969 revision of its liturgy, the Sundays following the Octave of Epiphany or, when this was abolished, following the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which was instituted to take the place of the Octave Day of Epiphany were named as the "Second (etc., up to Sixth) Sunday after Epiphany", as the at least 24 Sundays following Pentecost Sunday and Trinity Sunday were known as the "Second (etc.) Sunday after Pentecost". (If a year had more than 24 Sundays after Pentecost, up to four unused post-Epiphany Sundays were inserted between the