Alexander Ivanovich Kabaliuk was born into a Greek Catholic ([[Uniate]]) family but [[convert]]ed to Orthodoxy as a young man. He became an [[archimandrite]] and played a major role in reviving Orthodoxy in Transcarpathia in the early 20th century, and his [[missionary]] activities were persecuted by the Austrian-Hungarian authorities, who suspected Orthodox believers of pro-Russian sympathies. On the eve of World War I, Kabalyuk was sentenced to jail, and following his release he was one of the leaders of the Carpathian Orthodox until his death in 1947. On November 22, 1947 Fr. Alexis received [[Monastic_Ranks#Great_Schema|Great Schema]], and reposed shortly thereafter on [[December 2]]. He is considered an Orthodox hero and was [[glorification|glorified]] in 2001 by the [[Church of Ukraine]] ([[Moscow Patriarchate]]) as the first Subcarpathian Russian Orthodox saint.<ref>[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050630/40819891.html Ukraine: Conflict between Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism], ''Ria Novosti'', 30/06/2005.</ref>