Kyiv Theological Academy
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Epiphanius I of Ukraine Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine ( , secular name : Serhii Petrovych Dumenko , ; born on 3 February 1979 ) is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine ( OCU ) , holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine . Metropolitan Epiphanius served as the Metropolitan bishop of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva , in the former original Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( Kyiv Patriarchate ) from 2013 to 2018 . He was a professor of the Department of Biblical and Philological Disciplines of the . He was a member of the and of the International Federation of Journalists . Early life and education . Serhii Petrovych Dumenko was born on 3 February 1979 in Vovkove , Berezivka Raion , in Ukraine . His childhood and school years were in the village of Stara Zhadova in Storozhynets Raion of Chernivtsi Oblast . In 1996 in Stara Zhadova he graduated from high school of I-III grades . In 1996 he entered the Kyiv Theological Seminary , where he graduated in 1999 with a first class degree . In the same year he entered the Kyiv Theological Academy . He graduated as a doctor of theology in 2003 having successfully defended his PhD thesis on the Formation of church-canonical collections in the Donician period and their characteristics . In 2006–2007 he held an internship at the Athens National University in Greece in the Faculty of Philosophy . On 30 August 2012 , following his successful defense of his doctoral dissertation on the topic of the Doctrine of the Orthodox Church on salvation in the context of the continuity of the Holy Fatherland , he was awarded a degree of Doctor of Theology . Ministry . From 1 July 2003 to 31 December 2005 he served as the secretary-referent of the Rivne diocesan administration and the personal secretary of the Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh . From 26 August 2003 to 31 December 2005 he was a teacher of the Rivne Seminary , and also held the post of senior assistant inspector . In 2003-2005 , he led the Rivne Pravoslavne ( ) Internet portal , and was also a member of the editorial board of the religious newspaper Dukhovna Nyva ( ) . In December 2005 he was admitted to the . Since the academic year 2007 , he has been a teacher at the , and was appointed head of the philology department . Pn 21 December 2007 , with the blessing of Patriarch Filaret , Archbishop Dimitriy of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky made Epiphanius a monk in the Michaels Golden-Domed Monastery . He took the monastic name Epiphanius in honor of Epiphanius of Cyprus . On 20 January 2008 he was ordained hieromonk by Filaret . Later that month ( 25 January ) , he was appointed secretary of the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine , Filaret . In March 2008 he was ordained an archimandrite in St . Volodymyrs Cathedral . Later that month ( 20 March ) , he was appointed governor of Vydubychi Monastery in Kyiv . On 30 May 2008 , he was appointed manager of the affairs of the Kyivan Patriarchate . On 7 October 2008 he was awarded the title of Associate Professor of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy . On 21 October 2009 , at the Holy Synod of the UOC-KP he was elected Bishop of Vyshhorod , vicar of the Kyiv diocese . On 15 November 2009 , he was ordained a bishop . By the decision of the Holy Synod of the UOC-KP from 27 July 2010 , he was appointed rector of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy and the governor of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky diocese . On 17 November 2011 he was awarded the title of professor of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy . On 23 January 2012 , he was promoted to the rank of Archbishop . By the decision of the Bishops Council of the UOC-KP on 28 June 2013 , he was raised to the rank of Metropolitan of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Bila Tserkva and was appointed patriarchal governor with the rights of the diocesan bishop . On 13 December 2017 he was named Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Bila Tserkva . In April 2019 , he spoke in support of the law on the Ukrainian language . On August 21 , 2020 , on St . Michael’s Square in Kyiv , Metropolitan Epiphanius consecrated the renovated Wall of Remembrance of Heroes . He also consecrated the church on August 20 in honor of St . Nectarios of Aegina in the village of Khutir Yasny in Kyiv region . On August 29 , on the Day of Remembrance of Defenders of Ukraine , he honored the fallen Ukrainian servicemen . Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church . On 15 December 2018 , at the unification council held in the Cathedral of St . Sophia , he was elected Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine , the first primate of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine . The official name of the primate the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is His Beatitude ( name ) , Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine . Commemoration of the Patriarch of Moscow . On Sunday 16 December 2018 , during Metropolitan Epiphanius first Divine Liturgy as Metropolitan of the OCU following his election , he called for prayers for peace and unity in Ukraine . In the same liturgy , Metropolitan Epiphany also omitted Patriarch Kirill of Moscow from the list of brother primates with whom he is in communion who are usually commemorated at the Great Entrance . Metropolitan Epiphanius later explained in an interview with Ukrainian Direct TV channel : At the moment I do not commemorate him [ the Patriarch of Moscow ] because we are in a state of war , so the Ukrainian people would not accept if the newly-elected primate commemorated the name of the Russian Patriarch . During the Divine Liturgy on 7 January 2019 , after the OCU received its official autocephaly on 5 January 2019 , Metropolitan Epiphanius commemorated the name of Patriarch Kirill during the Great entrance . Epiphanius later told he had done this after the Ecumenical Patriarch had instructed him to do so , and that Filaret had instructed him ( Epiphanius ) not to mention Kirill . Reception of the tomos of autocephaly . On 5 January 2019 , Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Epiphanius held a liturgy in St . Georges Cathedral in Istanbul ; the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was signed thereafter , still in St . Georges Cathedral . The tomos has come into force from the moment of its signing . The signing of the tomos officially established the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine . After the tomos was signed , Metropolitan Epiphanius made a speech , in which he declared about Poroshenko : Your name , Mr President , will forever go down in the history of the Ukrainian people next to the names of the rulers , of our prince Volodymyr the Great , Yaroslav the Wise , Kostyantyn Ostrozky and Hetman Ivan Mazepa . On January 6 , after a liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Epiphanius and Patriarch Bartholomew , Partriarch Bartholomew read the tomos of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine ( OCU ) and then gave it to Metropolitan Epiphanius . On 8 January 2019 , the tomos was brought back to Istanbul so that all the members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate could sign the tomos . The tomos was signed by all members of the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 9 January 2018 . The tomos , signed by all members of the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate , was brought back to Ukraine on the morning of 10 January 2019 . Enthronement . It was planned that Epiphany would be enthroned on 3 February 2019 , which is also the date of his 40th birthday . Thereafter , the first synod of the OCU was to take place . The monasteries of Mount Athos refused to send a delegation for the enthronement ceremony not because the Fathers do not recognize its legitimacy or canonicity , but because they have chosen to stick with what has become official practice and accept invitations only to the enthronement of their ecclesiastical head , the Ecumenical Patriarch . Two abbots of Mount Athos were planned to come at the enthronement but were to be part of the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate . On 1 February , once in Kyiv , Archimandrite Ephrem , one of the two Athonite abbots , was hospitalized for a heart attack . On 2 February , Archimandrite Ephrem was visited by Epiphanius . As planned , Epiphanius was enthroned on 3 February 2019 , in St . Sophias Cathedral , Kyiv . Filaret was not present due to health conditions , so he sent his written congratulations to the primate Epiphanius , Filarets congratulations were written by him and read at the end of the liturgy . Archimandrite Ephrem , who had been hospitalized on 1 February 2019 , was not present at the ceremony of enthronement , but a hieromonk of Ephrems monastery was present during the ceremony of enthronement . A monk from a skete of the Koutloumousiou Monastery was also present during the ceremony of enthronement . The first meeting of the holy synod of the OCU took place on 5 February 2019 . Conflict with Filaret . A conflict erupted between Filaret and Epiphanius becauses of disagreements concerning the model of governance , the management of the diaspora , and the name and the statute of the OCU . According to Filaret , the agreement reached at the unification council was as follows : the primate is responsible for the external representation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( UOC ) , and the patriarch is responsible for the internal church life in Ukraine , but in cooperation with the primate . The primate shall do nothing in the church without the consent of the patriarch . The patriarch chairs the meetings of the Holy Synod and the UOC meetings for the sake of preserving unity , its growth , and affirmation . Filaret considers this agreement have not been fulfilled . Academic and social activities . Epiphanius is the head of the editorial board of scientific specialized editions Proceedings of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Theological Bulletin of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy . He is also an author of more than 50 publications , including several monographs about Orthodox theology . Epiphanius is an active religious leader and social activist . He participates in many scientific and educational activities , and has made a significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian religious education and science and the development and strengthening of the Ukrainian state . He received recognition for this contribution from both the state and the Church in the form of orders . Awards . Orders . He has received the Order of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian , the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr the Great of the Third Degree , the Order of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Order of the Holy Cross of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church . He has also received awards and honors with the Order of Merit of ІІ and III degrees , a letter of the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine , thanks to the Prime Minister of Ukraine , a letter of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine , decorations of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine , Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine , command Army of Ukraine , with distinctions of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University and the Ukrainian Peoples Embassy . 2019 Athenagoras Human Rights Award Academic . Honorary doctor of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University