Scholars Initiate Canonization of Prince Askold

The participants of the international conference “Establishment of the Kyivan Metropolitanate and Christian Influences in Rus-Ukraine at the Time of Prince Askold: 1150th Anniversary” held on December 14-15 in Kyiv passed a decision to prepare materials for the canonization of Prince Askold, Religion in Ukraine informed.

The conference was held by the T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University and M. Dragomanov National Teacher Training University on "the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the establishment of the Kyivan Metropolitanate as a spiritual and historic stage in the development of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church."

The participants of the event passed a decision to set up a committee to prepare materials to be further submitted to the consideration of Metropolitan Volodymyr and the Committee on the Canonization of Saints of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate “regarding the canonization of the Kyiv Christian Prince Askold as a martyr for the faith of Christ in Rus-Ukraine in the second half of the 9th centuey in view of his historic role and importance of his state and selfless church activity in the processes of spreading and establishing Ukrainian Orthodoxy at the state level and founding of the Kyivan Metropolitanate in 862.”