Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych

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Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych was a 17th-century Eastern Catholic archbishop and martyr known for his efforts to promote church unity between Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Christians in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic saint
Eastern Catholic bishop
archbishop
human
martyr
areaOfActivity Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
beatifiedBy Pope Urban VIII
birthName Ivan Kuntsevych
burialPlace St. Peter's Basilica
surface form: Basilica of Saint Peter

Vatican City
canonizationStatus canonized saint
canonizedBy Pope Pius IX
causeOfDeath martyrdom
church Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
surface form: Ruthenian Uniate Church

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
countryOfCitizenship Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
dateOfBeatification 1643
dateOfBirth 1580
dateOfCanonization 1867
dateOfDeath 1623-11-12
ethnicGroup Ruthenian
feastDay November 12
November 13
givenName Josaphat
languageSpoken Church Slavonic
Ruthenian
mannerOfDeath homicide
lynching
memberOf Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat
surface form: Basilian Order
monasticOrder Basilian Chouerite Order
surface form: Order of Saint Basil the Great
movement Union of Brest
notableFor promoting church unity between Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Christians
support of the Union of Brest
occupation bishop
monk
theologian
officeContested Orthodox opposition in Polotsk
patronage unity of the Eastern and Western Churches
placeOfBirth Kingdom of Poland
Volodymyr
Volodymyr
surface form: Volodymyr-Volynskyi
placeOfDeath Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Vitebsk
positionHeld Archbishop of Polotsk
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
residence Polotsk
Vilnius
title Martyr for Church Unity
Saint
veneratedIn Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

Eastern Catholic Churches

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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church patronSaint Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat namedAfter Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat devotion Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych