The Epiphany Monastery in Kremenets was built in 1633 by permission of the King of the Commonwealth as a male monastery. In 1636, Metropolitan of Kyiv Peter Mohyla declared the Kremenets monastery and the Brotherhood subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople and his exarch in Ukraine - the metropolitan, with the task of the Kremenets Brotherhood to be the protection of Orthodoxy in the district. A school, a printing house and a hospital were created at the monastery - the first in Kremenets. After the signing of the union of 1701, the monastery became a Uniate.
After the inclusion of Kremenets in the Russian Empire, the buildings of the Epiphany Monastery were transferred to the Kremenets Lyceum - the former. Collegium, and the monastery itself was transferred to the church and cells of the former Catholic monastery. The Epiphany Monastery received its current premises in 1839 and since 1873 has been the residence of the vicar of the Volyn diocese - Bishop of Ostrozh (Kremenets). Since 1919, the Orthodox Theological Seminary has been operating here. In 1953 the monastery became a women's one, and in 1959 it was abolished. August 26, 1990 is the date of the revival of the Epiphany Convent, when the icon of the Sorrowing Mother of God was transferred here from Pochaev in a procession.