Signatures are being collected among the teachers of the lyceum in Kamyanets-Podilsky about the renaming of the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in honor of Josaphat Kuntsevich. Such data are published on the website of the UOC.

The document says that the teaching staff of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Lyceum considers “it is unacceptable that one of the most important and beautiful cathedrals of the city is named after a Russian saint,” the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports.

Therefore, state employees appeal to the city authorities and the “bishop” of the OCU Pavel “to rename the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in honor of the great Ukrainian saint and henceforth call it the Cathedral of St. Josaphat.”

According to historical data, Josaphat Kuntsevich was distinguished by inhumanity and cruelty, engaged in violence and pogroms, and also conducted ardent and violent fanatical propaganda of the union. November 12, 1623 residents of Belarusian cities near Vitebsk and the Cossacks killed Kuntsevich.

Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky is the great-grandson of Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kyiv, the grandson of Prince Vsevolod the Big Nest, and the son of Grand Duke Yaroslav Vsevolodovich. Alexander Nevsky was the Grand Duke of Kyiv from 1249 to 1263. He died in 1263, taking the schema with the name Alexei before his death.