With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Podillia in 1362, Kamianets-Podilskyi was chosen as its administrative center. Religion, as one of the strongest levers of influence on the people, had to meet the requirements of secular power. That is why the efforts of the new government were aimed at turning to Catholicism - the main religion of the Lithuanian principality. Thanks to these events, Pope George XI founded the Podolsk Catholic Diocese in the city (1378), which demanded confirmation of its high status in the form of a wooden cathedral built on the money of the Koriatovych princes, which five years later received the status of a cathedral.→
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