Joasaph ( el, Ιωάσαφ; russian: Иоаса́ф, translit=Ioasaf) is a masculine given name. Joasaph is another name for Josaphat, the legendary martyred prince in the story of
Barlaam and Josaphat; according to
E. A. Wallis Budge
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips ...
, this name Joasaph ultimately originated as a mistranslation of
Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( ; sa, 𑀩𑁄𑀥𑀺𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁆𑀯 (Brahmī), translit=bodhisattva, label=Sanskrit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
In the Early Buddhist schools ...
. The
Ethiopic form of the name is Yewasef.
People with this name include:
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John VI Kantakouzenos
John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene ( el, , ''Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós''; la, Johannes Cantacuzenus; – 15 June 1383) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under An ...
(1292–1382), Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354, assumed the name Joasaph Christodoulos after his retirement to a monastery
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Joasaph I of Constantinople (), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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Joasaphus, Metropolitan of Moscow
Joasaphus Skripitsyn (russian: Иоасаф (Скрипицын), or Ioasaph or Joasaph; ? – 1555 or 1556) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus' from 1539 to 1542. He was the ninth Metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approv ...
(died 1556), Metropolitan of Moscow from 1539 to 1542
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Joasaph II of Constantinople
Joasaph II, known as "the Magnificent" ( el, Ιωάσαφ Β΄ ο Μεγαλοπρεπής; died after 1565) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1556 to 1565.
Life
Joasaph was born in Thrace. He studied in Ioannina and then in Naf ...
(), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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Patriarch Joasaphus I of Moscow (died 1640), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 1634 to 1640
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Joasaph of Belgorod
Saint Joasaph of Belgorod (russian: Иоасаф Белгородский, uk, Йоаса́ф Бєлгородський, secular name Ioakim Andreyevich Gorlenko, russian: Иоаким Андреевич Горленко; 8 (19) September 1705 ...
(1705–1754), bishop of Belgorod
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Joasaph Bolotov Bishop Joasaph (secular name Ivan Ilyich Bolotov, russian: Иоанн Ильич Болотов; 22 January 1761 – May 1799) was a Russian Orthodox missionary, bishop of Kodiak, vicar of Irkutsk diocese.
He came to Alaska as the leader of a group ...
(1760–1799), Russian Orthodox missionary in Alaska
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Ioasaf Tikhomirov
Ioasaf Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov (1872-1908) was a male actor from the Russian Empire. He trained under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who offered "rigorous and intelligent" courses in actor training at the school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society ...
(1872–1908), Russian actor
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Joasaph Leliukhin (1903–1966), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia and Exarch of Ukraine
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Joasaph (McLellan) (1962–2009), Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
See also
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Josaphat (disambiguation)
References
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