Josaphat can refer to:
People
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Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat (; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; ; ; ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his father. His children included Jehoram, who ...
, in the Bible, fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah
* Saint Josephat, one of:
** Josaphat, a Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are Christian saints. Their story tells of the conversion of Josaphat to Christianity. According to tradition, an Indian king persecuted the Christian Church in his realm. After ast ...
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Yuz Asaf, Arabic and Urdu variations of his name
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Josaphat Kuntsevych
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM ( – 12 November 1623) 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 ...
(c.1580 – 1623), Belarusian martyr and saint of the Ruthenian Catholic Church; St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr in the current Roman Calendar
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Giosafat Barbaro
Giosafat Barbaro (also spelled ''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 (1900–76), mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
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Josaphat Celestin, Haitian-American politician, North Miami's first black mayor
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Josaphat Chichkov (1884 – 1952), Bulgarian priest and martyr
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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, 1885 – 1949), Canadian conductor, composer, and musician
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Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata (''née'' Michaelina Hordashevska; Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Михайлина Гордашевська; 20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic religious sister in th ...
(1869 – 1919), Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun
* Blessed
Josaphat Kotsylovsky (1917 – 1947, ), Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr
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Josaphat-Robert Large (1942 – 2017), Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic
* 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. (1816 – 1899), founder of a news agency
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Josaphat (Metropolis) 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: "The ...
, mentioned in the biblical book of Joel
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Josaphat Park
Josaphat Park (; ) is an urban public park of in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium. The hilly English landscape garden, English-style park was designed between 1901 and 1904 by the landscape architect :fr:Edmond Galoppin, Edm ...
, a public park located in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels
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Planet Nine
Planet Nine is a List of hypothetical Solar System objects, hypothetical ninth 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 obj ...
, 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 (; , abbreviated OSBM), also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is a Greek Catholic monastic order of pontifical right that works actively among Ukrainian Catholics and other Greek-Catholic churc ...
, 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
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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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