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Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine was born with the name Serhii Dumenko. He was born on February 3, 1979. He is the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). He is Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Metropolitan Epiphanius was the Metropolitan bishop of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva from 2013 to 2018.

Biography

Serhii Dumenko was born on February 3, 1979 in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. He lived in Chernivtsi Oblast when he was young.

In 1999, he graduated from the Kyiv Theological Seminary. Then he entered the Kyiv Theological Academy. He graduated with a doctor of theology degree in 2003.

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    Epiphanius, then President Petro Poroshenko and Andriy Parubiy on 15 December 2018

  • Batholomew handing tomos to Epiphanius

    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (left) handing the tomos of autocephaly to Metropolitan Epiphanius (right)

  • Secretary Pompeo Meets with Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Metropolitan Epiphaniy (48947865572)

    Epiphanius with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019

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