Josaphat can refer to:
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Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat (; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; ; el, Ἰωσαφάτ, Iosafát; la, Josaphat), according to 1 Kings 22:41, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his father ...
, in the Bible, fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah
* Josaphat, a Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are legendary Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, and tells of the conversion of Josaphat to Christianity. According to the legend, an Indian ...
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Giosafat Barbaro Giosafat Barbaro (also Giosaphat or Josaphat) (1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat
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Josephat T. Benoit
Josephat T. Benoit (March 3, 1900 – May 14, 1976) was a Canadian-born American journalist and politician who served as the 41st mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, from 1944 to 1961. A New Deal Democrat, he held that office for a record n ...
(1900–76), mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
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Josaphat Celestin
Josaphat J. Celestin, also known as Joe Celestin, is an American politician who served as the mayor of North Miami, Florida from 2001 to 2005. A Republican, he was the first Haitian-American of a sizable city in the United States.
Celestin was b ...
, Haitian-American politician, North Miami's first black mayor
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Josaphat Chichkov
Robert-Matthew Chichkov (9 February 1884 – 11 November 1952) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was a priest, rector and teacher who was sentenced to death in the early 1950s.
He came from a large and fervent Latin rite Catholic family. He entered the Assump ...
, Bulgarian priest, rector and teacher
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J.-J. Gagnier
Jean-Josaphat Gagnier (2 December 1885 – 16 September 1949) was a Canadian conducting, conductor, composer, clarinetist, bassoonist, pianist, arts administrator, and music educator. His compositional output mainly consists of works for orchestr ...
(Jean-Josaphat Gagnier), Canadian conductor, composer, and musician
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Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary ...
, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun
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Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr.
Kotsylovsky was born 3 March 1876 in the village of Pakoszowka (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland), of the ...
( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський), Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr
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Josaphat Kuntsevych
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM ( – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian monk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Church who on 12 November 1623 was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian ...
(c.1580 – 1623), Belarusian martyr and saint of the Ruthenian Catholic Church
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Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large (November 15, 1942 – October 28, 2017) was a Euro-Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel ''Les terres entourées de larmes'' hore surrounded with tearswon the prestigious Prix littéraire des Cara ...
, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic
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Yuz Asaf
Youza Asaf, Youza Asaph, Youza Asouph, Yuz Asaf, Yuzu Asaf, Yuzu Asif, or Yuzasaf, ( ur, ) are Arabic and Urdu variations of the name Josaphat, and are primarily connected with Christianized and Islamized versions of the life of the Buddha found ...
, a sage buried at Srinagar, Kashmir, whose name is interpreted as "Josaphat" by Christians
* Israel Beer Josaphat, the birth name of
Paul Reuter
Paul Julius Reuter (born Israel Beer Josaphat; 21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), later ennobled as Freiherr von Reuter (Baron von Reuter), was a German-born British entrepreneur who was a pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting.[Josaphat (Metropolis)
Josaphat can refer to:
People
* Jehoshaphat, in the Bible, fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah
* Josaphat, a Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
* Giosafat Barbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diploma ...]
is a main character in Fritz Lang's
''Metropolis'' (1927 film)
Churches
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St. Josaphat Cathedral (disambiguation)
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St. Josaphat's Church (disambiguation)
Other places
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Valley of Josaphat
The Valley of Josaphat (variants: Valley of Jehoshaphat and Valley of Yehoshephat) is a Biblical place mentioned by name in the Book of Joel ( and ): "I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: "Then ...
, mentioned in the biblical book of Joel
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Josaphat Park
Josaphat Park (french: Parc Josaphat, nl, Josaphatpark) is a public park of located in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium. The football stadium that was formerly used by the K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt lies on the north-western ...
, a public park located in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels
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Planet Nine
Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit t ...
, which has been called by its original proponents: "Jehoshaphat", "George", and "Phattie".
Other uses
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''Barlaam and Josaphat'' (book), several books dealing with the lives of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat
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Order of Saint Basil the Great
The Order of Saint Basil the Great ( uk, Чин Святого Василія Великого, translit=Chyn Sviatoho Vasyliia Velykoho; la, Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni, abbreviated OSBM), also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is ...
, also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, monastic religious order of the Greek Catholic Church
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Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat
The Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych (SSJK) is a society of traditionalist priests and seminarians originating from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church which is led by the excommunicated priest Basil Kovpak. It is based in Riasne ...
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Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the United States. Its episcopal see is Parma, Ohio. It was established in 1983 by Pope ...
, a diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
See also
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Jehoshaphat (disambiguation)
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