Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that 39-year-old Metropolitan Epifaniy of the Kiev Patriarchate church is the head of the new church. His secular name is Sergiy Dumenko.
“This day will go down in history as a sacred day … the day of the final independence from Russia,” Poroshenko told thousands of supporters, who shouted “Glory! Glory! Glory!”
“I would like to call on all our brothers, bishops and all believers to the newly created united Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” Yepifaniy told the crowd outside the cathedral.
“The doors of our church are open to all.”
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