Diocese of Simferopol and Crimea (Ukraine)

Orthodox Churches and Monasteries of Sevastopol, Crimea

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It was Apostle Andrew Called at the First who said the Holy Word on the Land of Geraclean Chersonesus (Korsun in Russian). Professing Holy Skripture on Sevastopol land many ascetics died here. Climent of Rome with his pupils was exiled to Korsun in 98 A.D. St. Martin the Confessor among them (exiled here by monophelits). St. Kiril brought the written language to Kiev Rus from here. St. Prince Vladimir of Kiev was baptised in Chersonesus.

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