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# "Metropolitan" of OCU: Epifaniy and I were rejected everywhere abroad
- URL: https://uoj.news/news/83845-metropolitan-of-ocu-epifaniy-and-i-were-rejected-everywhere-abroad/
- Published: 2025-01-02T15:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T16:11:29.000Z
- Description: The head of the Poltava diocese of the OCU spoke about attitudes toward the UOC-KP abroad.
- Author: News
- Tags: #Category: News, UOC KP, OCU, Epifaniy Dumenko

"Metropolitan" Fedir Bubniuk of Poltava and Kremenchuk (OCU) [shared with Livyi Bereh](https://lb.ua/society/2025/01/02/653229%5Fmitropolit%5Fptsu%5Ffedir%5Fyak%5Ftilki%5Fbuli.html) the challenges he and his classmate [Epifaniy Dumenko](https://uoj.news/tag/epifaniy-dumenko/) faced during their student years.

"I have the best memories of that time. I became a monk and priest earlier than His Beatitude. He went to study in Athens. I think it was difficult for him because financial support for his studies was needed, and besides that, we were isolated – being from the Kyiv Patriarchate, we were rejected everywhere, and no one accepted us," Bubniuk shared.

He described Dumenko during that time as a diligent student.

As the UOJ previously reported, religious scholar Yuriy Chornomorets accused Dumenko of duplicity.