Joasaph

Joasaph (Ιωάσαφ; Йоа́саф ; Иоаса́ф) 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, this name Joasaph ultimately originated as a mistranslation of Bodhisattva. The Ethiopic form of the name is Yewasef. People with this name include:


 * John VI Kantakouzenos (1292–1382), Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354, assumed the name Joasaph Christodoulos after his retirement to a monastery
 * Joasaph I of Constantinople (fl. 1460s), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 * Joasaphus, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1556), Metropolitan of Moscow from 1539 to 1542
 * Joasaph II of Constantinople (fl. 1550s–1560s), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 * Patriarch Joasaphus I of Moscow (died 1640), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 1634 to 1640
 * Joasaph of Belgorod (1705–1754), bishop of Belgorod
 * Joasaph Bolotov (1760–1799), Russian Orthodox missionary in Alaska
 * Ioasaf Tikhomirov (1872–1908), Russian actor
 * Joasaph Leliukhin (1903–1966), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia and Exarch of Ukraine
 * Joasaph (McLellan) (1962–2009), Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia