Christian feast day: Josaphat Kuntsevych (Roman Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church)

Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM 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.

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The Church consists of 24 sui iuris (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church.

Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to:

• The Catholic Church in Greece
• The Eastern Orthodox Church
• The Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite:
  • The Albanian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
  • The Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
  • The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
  • The Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Malta Greek Catholic Church
  • The Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  • The Romanian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Russian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Slovak Greek Catholic Church
  • The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Any other Eastern Catholic group that uses the Byzantine Rite:
  • The Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics
  • An Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful