In the Revised Common Lectionary, followed by some Lutherans, United Methodists, Anglicans, and others, the last Sunday in the Epiphany season (that immediately preceding Ash Wednesday) uses the gospel account, which has led some churches without established festal calendars to refer to this day as "Transfiguration Sunday".

[clarification needed] The Ethiopian Orthodox Church holds the ceremony of Buhe on the Feast of the Transfiguration.

Old Catholics also believe that the transfiguration was a major event that revealed the divinity of Christ; that Jesus is indeed the splendor and eikon of the Father.

The Transfiguration shows forth humanity in the splendor of its original form when it was united in the life-giving love of the Triune God.

If the Transfiguration falls on a Sunday, it replaces the ordinary liturgical Ordo of the season for Sacred Liturgy.

This state of affairs is perpetuated in the 1662 Prayer Book, but would have been remedied had the 1928 Proposed BCP been approved by Parliament.

As it was, the Bishops of the Church of England refused to sanction those who used the 1928 Book of Common Prayer as the 6 August date came into general use.

The American Book of Common Prayer of 1892 has been incorporated into most modern Anglican calendars (sometimes called "The Transfiguration of Our Lord").

[7] After the Reformation the Feast of the Transfiguration was abandoned in the Protestant parts of Germany, but continued to be observed in Sweden.

Calvin's own views on the Transfiguration were far from ambivalent: With time, most major feasts were restored to the Reformed ecclesiastical calendar.

The Book of Common Worship of 1993 (Presbyterian Church USA) contains the order of the service for Transfiguration of the Lord.