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<!--nb. portrait images at ~100px, landscape images at ~200px-->[[Image:Theophany.jpg|100px|left]]''The '''[[TheophanyEpiscopal Assembly of North and Central America]]''''' (from Greek ''theophania'', meaning "appearance of God") is one founded in 2010, consists of all the [[Great Feasts]] active Orthodox bishops of the [[Orthodox Church]]North and Central America, celebrated on [[January 6]]representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the feast which reveals the Most Holy Trinity successor to the world through the Baptism of the Lord (Mt.3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). This observance commemorates [[Jesus Christ|Christ]]'s [[baptism]] by [[John the Forerunner]] in the River JordanSCOBA, and the beginning of Christ's earthly ministryit is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Feast Episcopal Assembly of Theophany North and Central America is the culmination one of several such bodies around the Christmas Season, world which starts on [[December 25]] and ends on [[January 6]]. In mystic commemoration of this event, the [[Great Blessing of Water]] is performed on this day, and operate in the [[holy water]] so blessed is used by the local [[priest]] to bless the homes of the faithful-called "diaspora."

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