1623
Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)
Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)
Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)
Josaphat Kuntsevych
Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and martyr
- Died
- 1623
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM 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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