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As happens every year, thousands flocked to Tarpon Springs, Florida to celebrate the Greek Orthodox Epiphany with the traditional diving for the Cross. Tarpon Springs, which has a large and thriving Greek community, hosts one of the most popular Epiphany...

Tarpon Springs basked in its 117th annual Epiphany celebration, a richly choreographed religious and cultural event that brought thousands of visitors to the Florida city. Tarpon Springs hosts the largest Epiphany celebration in the western hemisphere. Following the Divine Liturgy and...

Thousands of people attended the annual Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs, Florida on Thursday. Archbishop Elpidophoros and Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta were the officiants in this year’s liturgy at the city's St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Following the Divine Liturgy and Great...

An Epiphany celebration is to be held for the first time in St. Augustine on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida on Thursday. The Greek Orthodox community in the town, which is the oldest continuously-inhabited European-established settlement in the United States,...

The annual Epiphany celebration of the Baptism of Jesus Christ by St. John the Baptist in the River Jordan will be held on January 6, 2022 at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs, Florida. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros,...

Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America Elpidophoros and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the world's largest Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs, Florida, on Monday morning, local time. A number of Greek-American teenage boys aged 16 to 18 participated in the Epiphany cross...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to be the first national head of state to attend the famed Tarpon Springs, Florida Epiphany Celebration, one day before a scheduled Jan. 7 meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump. It...

On Sunday, 58 Greek teenage boys aged 16 to 18 participated in the Epiphany cross dive in Spring Bayou, Tarpon Springs, with the belief that the person who retrieves the cross will be blessed with good luck for the...

The Greek Orthodox feast of the Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th each year across the globe. Many would be surprised to learn that the festivities which take place every year in Tarpon Springs, Florida, are actually the largest...

The 112th Annual Epiphany Celebration in Tarpon Springs, Florida took place on Saturday, with Christian Chrysakis retrieving the Holy Cross from the water. The Greek Orthodox celebration of the Baptism of Jesus Christ by Saint John the Baptist was held at...

The Greek Orthodox celebration of the Epiphany is celebrated each year in Tarpon Springs, Florida. On Friday dozens of Greek teenage boys participated in the dive to fetch the cross in Spring Bayou with the belief that the person...

Hudson's 17-year-old Anderson Combs is the lucky teenager who retrieved the coveted holy cross from Spring Bayou during St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral’s 110th annual Epiphany celebration. Archbishop Demetrios, head of U.S. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in New York City, officiated the...

Thousands of people are expected to arrive in Tarpon Springs for the 110th Epiphany celebration, to be held on Wednesday, January 6, at the historic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral and Spring Bayou. According to Greek Orthodox religion Epiphany commemorates...

The 2015 Epiphany Celebration saw an 18-year-old Greek American from Tarpon Springs counting his blessings after retrieving the cross from the water. "This means the world to me," said Kosta Pseftelis who was first to grab the cross. "I've been...

On January 6, Tampa Bay’s Greek Orthodox community will celebrate its 109th Epiphany ceremony in Tarpon Springs, where one of the largest Epiphany celebrations in the Western Hemisphere is hosted. The highlight of the event is the throwing of...