On December 15, Orthodox Churches in Ukraine united in St. Sophia. Metropolitan Epiphanius was elected the primate of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
The 39th Metropolitan of Pereyaslavl and Bila Tserkva Epiphanius (Serhiy Dumenko), who is the governor of the UOC-KP Filaret.
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Over the centuries, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre has suffered violent attacks, fires, and earthquakes. It was totally destroyed in 1009 and subsequently rebuilt, leading modern scholars to question whether it could possibly be the site identified as the burial place of Christ by a delegation sent from Rome some 17 centuries ago. …