Church of the Epiphany, Gipton Church of the Epiphany, Gipton The Church of the Epiphany (also known as the Bishop Burroughs Memorial Church of the Epiphany) in Gipton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade I listed. The church was built to serve the then growing housing estate of Gipton. Designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day and built by Armitage Hodgson of Leeds, groundbreaking began in 1936 and the church opened in 1938. The foundation stone was laid on the 12th July 1937 by Elsie Burroughs, the sister of the
Epiphany (holiday) have 29 days). The celebration of this feast features blessing of water and solemn processions with the sacred Tabot. In Finland, Epiphany is called "loppiainen", a name which goes back to the 1600s. In the 1500s the Swedish-Finnish Lutheran church called Epiphany "Day of the Holy Three Kings", while before this, the older term "Epiphania" was used. In the Karelian language Epiphany is called "vieristä", meaning cross, from the Orthodox custom of submerging a cross three times to bless water on this day. Today, in the Lutheran church, Epiphany is a day dedicated to a focus on missionary work in