Josaphat Kuntsevych
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Ruthenian Catholic archbishop, martyr and saint
Key facts
- Church
- Ruthenian Uniate Church (present-day Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church )
- Diocese
- Archeparchy of Polotsk
- Term ended
- November 12, 1623 ( 1623-11-12 )
- Predecessor
- Gedeon Brolnitskyj
- Successor
- Antonius Sielava
- Consecration
- 12 November 1617, by Archeparch Gedeon Brolnitskyj
- Born
- Ivan Kunchych , c. 1580 , Volodymyr , Volhynian Voivodeship , Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Died
- ( 1623-11-12 ) November 12, 1623, Vitebsk , Vitebsk Voivodeship , Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Feast day
- November 12 ( Latin Church , Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Belarusian Greek Catholic Church , Romanian Greek Catholic Church , Ruthenian Catholic Church ), November 14 ( General Roman Calendar of 1960 )
- Title as saint
- Bishop and martyr
- Beatified
- May 16, 1643, Rome, by Pope Urban VIII
- Canonized
- June 29, 1867, Rome, by Pope Pius IX
- Patronage
- [Ukraine]The St Leonards academy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Place of birth
- Volodymyr
- Place of death
- Vitebsk
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Religion
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Image
- JKuncewicz.jpg
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- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- place of burial
- St. Peter's Basilica
- Commons category
- Josaphat Kuntsevych
- feast day
- November 12
- date of death
- 1623-11-12
- date of birth
- 1580-00-00
- described by source
- Wikitólica
- consecrator
- Joakym Morokhovskyj
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Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Polotsk from 1618 to 1623. On 12 November 1623, he was beaten to death with an axe during an anti-Catholic riot by Eastern Orthodox Belarusians in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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