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Josaphat Kuncevyc

Saint
Josaphat Kuntsevych
O.S.B.M.
Archeparch of Polotsk
St Josaphat Saint of Ruthenia.jpg
Church Ruthenian Catholic Church
Diocese Archeparchy of Polotsk
Appointed 1618
Term ended November 12, 1623 (1623-11-12)
Predecessor Gedeon Brolnicki ()
Successor Antin Sielava
Personal details
Birth name Ivan Kunchych
Born c. 1580
Volodymyr, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died November 12, 1623(1623-11-12)
Vitebsk, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Sainthood
Feast day

November 12 (Latin Church, Romanian Greek Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church)
November 14 (Latin Church, extraordinary rite)


November 25 (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
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

November 12 (Latin Church, Romanian Greek Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church)
November 14 (Latin Church, extraordinary rite)

Josaphat Kuntsevych, O.S.B.M., (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) (Belarusian: Язафат Кунцэвіч, Jazafat Kuncevič, Polish: Jozafat Kuncewicz, Lithuanian: Juozapatas Kuncevičius, Ukrainian: Йосафат Кунцевич, Josafat Kuntsevych) was a Polish-Lithuanian monk and archeparch (archbishop) of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, who on 12 November 1623 was killed by angry mob in Vitebsk,Vitebsk Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in Belarus). He is "the best-known victim" of anti-Catholic violence related to implementing the Union of Brest, and is declared a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church.

His death reflects the conflict among Christian Orthodox and Catholics that had intensified after the Ruthenian Orthodox Church (Kiev Metropolitan) joint the Catholic Church through the 1596 Union of Brest and was ongoing ever since Isidore of Kiev has signed the Florentine Union.


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