Epiphany term
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Epiphany term is the second academic term at Durham University, falling between Michaelmas term and Easter term, as in the Christian Feast of the Epiphany, held in January.{{cite web |url= https://www.postgrad.com/study-in-uk/uk-postgraduate-study/university-holidays/ |website= postgrad.com |publisher=Postgrad Solutions|title=University Term Times and Vacations|accessdate=28 July 2018}}
The term runs from January until March,{{cite web |url= https://www.dur.ac.uk/dates/|publisher=Durham University|title=Dates of meetings and events|accessdate=28 July 2018}} equivalent to the Spring term at many British universities, Hilary term at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, and Lent term at Cambridge, Canterbury Christ Church, Lancaster, Liverpool, LSE and Swansea.
Historically, the name has been in use at Durham since the university's opening in 1833,{{cite book|work=Durham University: earlier foundations and present colleges|date=1904|author=J T Fowler|title=Appendix VI: 'First calendar' (now so called) of the university, 1833|page=244|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwwOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244}} and was also used at Newcastle University (formerly King's College of Durham University) until 2004.{{cite web|title=University terms to be renamed?|date=25 February 2004
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|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/newslink/index.html?ref=1077708461|archive-date=22 March 2007|publisher=Newcastle University}} It was also used at Durham's overseas affiliated colleges: Codrington College, Barbados,{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JhI_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA490 |title=Barbados and the Windwards |page=490 |date=1878 |publisher= Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts |work= Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts |volume= 23}} and Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone,{{cite news |url= http://sierraexpressmedia.com/?p=80378 |title= In Sierra Leone Fourah Bay College Turns 190 |date=18 February 2017 |work= Sierra Express Media |quote= The academic year then was divided into three terms beginning with the Michaelmas, Easter and Epiphany terms quite different from what prevails today; College sessions today are divided into two sessions – First and Second semesters. As a Durham University College overseas the names of the three terms reflected the Durham system of nomenclature.}} and is used (as of July 2018) by Sierra Leone Law School.{{cite web|url=http://lawschool.edu.sl/current-calendar/4560896668|title=Current Calendar|accessdate=29 July 2018|publisher=Sierra Leone Law School}}
In the United States, the name was in use in the late 19th century at Hobart College,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hup3NuJ-hicC&pg=RA2-PA49|title=Hobart College, Geneva, Ontario County|work=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York|volume=5|issue= 54–80|publisher=New York (State). Legislature. Assembly|date= 1878 }} and at Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYs9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5|title=American Church Almanac and Year Book|date=1899}} and for a period after 1913 at Sewanee: the University of the South.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGEQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|page=44|title=The Liberal Arts at Sewanee|author=W. Brown Patterson|year=2009|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9780918769589}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6|title=Catalogue and Announcements|publisher=University of the South|date=1920|page=6}}
The name remains in use (interchangeably with "Spring term") at the General Theological Seminary in New York.{{cite web|title=General Theological Seminary Catalog Academic Year 2017-2018|url=https://gts.edu/s/Fall_General_Theological_Seminary_Catalog_2017-18_Revised-mh4m.pdf|accessdate=29 July 2018|publisher=General Theological Seminary}}
See also
- Michaelmas term
- Hilary term (equivalent term at Dublin and Oxford)
- Lent term (equivalent term at Cambridge, Canterbury Christ Church, Lancaster, Liverpool, LSE and Swansea)
- Easter term
- Epiphany season (liturgical season in the Church of England)