Josaphat Kuntsevych
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Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate Church who on 12 November 1623 was beaten to death with an axe during an anti-Catholic riot by Eastern Orthodox Belarusians in Vitebsk, in the eastern... Wikipedia
Born: 1580, Volodymyr, Ukraine
Died: November 12, 1623 (age 43 years), Vitebsk, Belarus
Place of burial: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Appointed: 1618
Beatified: May 16, 1643; Rome; by Pope Urban VIII
Canonized: June 29, 1867; Rome; by Pope Pius IX
Church: Ruthenian Uniate Church (present-day Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
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