Epiphanius enthroned in Kyiv
On 3 February 2019 Epiphanius, also known as Epifaniy, was enthroned as Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine at St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

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On 3 February 2019 Epiphanius, also known as Epifaniy, was enthroned as Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine at St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. The ceremony made him primate of the recently established Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which had received its decree of independence from the Ecumenical Patriarch a month earlier.
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Epiphanius I of Ukraine
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Epiphanius enthroned in Kyiv. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 2.orthodoxia.infochecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: epiphanius+enthron · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Epiphanius enthroned in Kyiv. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/epiphanius-enthroned-kyiv-2019-02-03
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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