Today, Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky (Kyiv Patriarchate) was elected primate of the new « Orthodox Church in Ukraine », by the participants of the Unification Council held in Kyiv. After the election, Bishop Epifaniy addressed the faithful gathered in front of Saint Sophia Cathedral, thanking President Poroshenko for the efforts that contributed to the creation of the United Orthodox Church in Ukraine, but also Filaret, « the spiritual father of all Ukrainians