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Kunceyyc, Josaphat, Saint
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Martyr, Archbishop of Polotsk, born Volodymyr, Lithuania, 1580; died Vitebsk, Russia, 1623. Of noble Ruthenian stock, he was educated in his native town. He entered the Basilian monastery of the Trinity at Vilna, was ordained priest, 1609, and subsequently became superior in several monasteries, Bishop of Vitebsk (1617), and Archbishop of Polotsk (1618). He prayed constantly for the extinction of the Eastern Schism; and labored zealously for the union between Rome and the Greco-Slavic Church in Russia and Poland, and the political rights of the Ruthenian clergy. He was martyred in 1623. Emblems: crown, chalice, winged deacon. Relics at Polotsk. Feast, Roman Calendar, November 14,.
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Entry for 'Kunceyyc, Josaphat, Saint'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​k/kunceyyc-josaphat-saint.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Kunceyyc, Josaphat, Saint'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​k/kunceyyc-josaphat-saint.html. 1910.