"Support during tests." Interview of the Metropolitan of Kyiv Epiphanius
On December 15, the Primate of the Local Ukrainian Orthodox Church was elected at the Unification Council in Kyiv on December 15. It was Metropolitan of Pereyaslavsky and Belotserkovsky Epiphanius. He, a graduate of the Kyiv Theological Seminary and Athenian University, was the governor of the Vydubitsky Monastery in Kyiv and the secretary of Filaret, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, who became part of the new, already autocephalous Ukrainian church.