Dedication
Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, the patron saint to which the cathedral is dedicated, was born in the early 1630s in Podolia.
The name given to him in baptism is unknown.
He was educated at the Brotherhood Monastery in Kiev.
He became a monk at the Kiev Caves Monastery and named Theodosius, in honor of Theodosius of Kiev.
He was later ordained as a celibate priest at the Saint Nicholas Krupytskyi Monastery near Baturyn.
In 1662, he was appointed hegumen of the Korsun Monastery in Kaniv.
In 1664, he was appointed hegumen of the Vydubychi Monastery in Kiev.
In 1680, he established a small skete on the island of Mikhailovschino or Mikhailovschina.
In 1688, he was appointed archimandrite of the Yeletskyi Dormition Monastery in Chernigov.
On September 13, 1692, he was consecrated archbishop in the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
In 1694, a skete was founded near Liubech.
Saint Theodosius died on February 5, 1696 and was buried in the Cathedral of Saints Boris and Gleb in Chernigov.
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