Epiphanius

Epiphanius – Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine (elected on December 15, 2018). His secular name is Serhii Petrovych Dumenko. He was born on February 3, 1979 in Odesa region into a working-class family. He spent his childhood and school years in Chernivtsi region.

In 1996-1999, he studied at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, and in 1999-2004 at the Kyiv Theological Academy. From July 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005, he served as secretary-assistant of the Rivne Diocesan Administration and personal secretary of Metropolitan Daniil of Rivne and Ostroh. He was also a lecturer at the Rivne Theological Seminary and press secretary of the Rivne Diocesan Administration. In 2006-2007, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National University of Athens. On December 21, 2007, he was tonsured a monk with the name Epiphanius.

Since 2008, he has been involved in the affairs of the UOC-KP. In 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Filaret appointed Epiphanius metropolitan with the title of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Bila Tserkva, and in 2017 he became Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Bila Tserkva.

Epiphanius is a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and the International Federation of Journalists, as well as rector of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy.