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Josaphat Kuntsevych

1580 - 1623

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Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate 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. His death reflects the conflict between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches that intensified after four Ruthenian Orthodox Church (Kiev Metropolitanate) bishops transferred their allegiance from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to the Holy See, under the terms laid down by the 1439 Council of Florence, by signing the 1596 Union of Brest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josaphat Kuntsevych is the 809th most popular religious figure (down from 608th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 84th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Religious Figure.

Josaphat Kuntsevych is most famous for his epic poem, "Taras Bulba," which he wrote in 1842. The poem is about the life of Taras Bulba, a Cossack general in Ukraine.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 809 out of 3,187. Before him are Saint Malachy, Isaac in Islam, Euphemia, Zephaniah, Papias of Hierapolis, and Roger Etchegaray. After him are Haran, Ibrahim ibn Adham, Giuseppe Siri, Mahinda, John of Ávila, and Blessed Gerard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 6. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, Willebrord Snellius, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, John Smith, and Gabriel Bethlen. After him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ernst von Mansfeld, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Cristóvão Ferreira, and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger. Among people deceased in 1623, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 7. Before him are Pope Gregory XV, Anne Hathaway, Halime Sultan, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Tulsidas, and William Byrd. After him are John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Domenico Fetti, Paolo Sarpi, and Kara Davud Pasha.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 116 out of 1,365. Before him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Roald Hoffmann (1937), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), and Lee Strasberg (1901). After him are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Stepan Makarov (1848), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Emil Gilels (1916), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), and Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ukraine

Among religious figures born in Ukraine, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 3. Before him are Baal Shem Tov (1700), and Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902). After him are Nachman of Breslov (1772), Jacob Frank (1726), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Marian Jaworski (1926), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), Filaret (1929), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), and Tekla Juniewicz (1906).

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