Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)

Josaphat Kuntsevych

Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and martyr

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…