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Alexis (Kabaliuk) of Carpathia

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St. Alexei Kabalyuk (d.1947) was born into a Greek Catholic (Uniate) family but converted to Orthodoxy as a young man. He became a clergyman 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 WWI, Kabalyuk was sentenced to jail, and following his release he was one of the leaders of the Carpathian Orthodox until his death in 1947. Naturally, he is an Orthodox hero, canonized in 2001, and an irreconcilable and successful - and hence dangerous - opponent for the Greek Catholics.1


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