1580 - 1623
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian monk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate Church who on 12 November 1623 was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josaphat Kuntsevych has received more than 229,189 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Josaphat Kuntsevych is the 690th most popular religious figure (up from 783rd in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 119th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Religious Figure.
Josaphat Kuntsevych is most famous for his epic poem, "Taras Bulba," which he wrote in 1842. The poem is about the life of Taras Bulba, a Cossack general in Ukraine.
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Among religious figures, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 690 out of 2,238. Before him are Theodora, Abe no Seimei, Aloysius Stepinac, Mordecai, Eulalia of Mérida, and James, brother of Jesus. After him are Angelo Sodano, Saint Remigius, Ludmila of Bohemia, Gertrude the Great, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, and Sa'id bin Zayd.
815 - 867
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 684
921 - 1005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 685
1898 - 1960
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 686
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 687
290 - 304
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 688
20 BC - 69
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 689
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 690
1927 - 2022
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 691
437 - 533
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 692
860 - 921
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 693
1256 - 1302
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 694
464 - 497
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 695
593 - 673
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 696
Among people born in 1580, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 5. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, Willebrord Snellius, Gabriel Bethlen, and John Smith. After him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Ernst von Mansfeld, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Andrea Falconieri, Augusta of Denmark, and Pierre Vernier. Among people deceased in 1623, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 5. Before him are Pope Gregory XV, Halime Sultan, Tulsidas, and Anne Hathaway. After him are William Byrd, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Domenico Fetti, Kara Davud Pasha, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, and John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen.
1580 - 1644
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 1
1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 2
1580 - 1629
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 3
1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 4
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 5
1580 - 1661
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 6
1580 - 1637
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 7
1580 - 1626
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 8
1580 - 1637
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 9
1580 - 1656
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 10
1580 - 1639
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 11
1580 - 1637
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 12
1554 - 1623
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 1
1576 - 1623
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 2
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 3
1556 - 1623
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 4
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 5
1543 - 1623
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1542 - 1623
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 7
1589 - 1623
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 8
1570 - 1623
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 9
1556 - 1623
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 10
1555 - 1623
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 11
1561 - 1623
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ukraine, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 88 out of 1,083. Before him are Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), Nachman of Breslov (1772), and Andriy Shevchenko (1976). After him are Bruno Schulz (1892), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Oleg Blokhin (1952).
1963 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 82
1886 - 1941
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 83
1880 - 1940
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 84
1920 - 1977
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 85
1772 - 1810
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 86
1976 - Present
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 87
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 88
1892 - 1942
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 89
1929 - 2015
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 90
1919 - 1990
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 91
1030 - 1093
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 92
1882 - 1937
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 93
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.87
Rank: 94
Among religious figures born in Ukraine, Josaphat Kuntsevych ranks 3. Before him are Baal Shem Tov (1700) and Nachman of Breslov (1772). After him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Jacob Frank (1726), Filaret (1929), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), Hilarion of Kiev (990), Anthony of Kiev (983), Dimitry of Rostov (1651), and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896).
1700 - 1760
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 1
1772 - 1810
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 2
1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 3
1902 - 1994
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 4
1726 - 1791
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 5
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 6
1029 - 1074
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 7
1722 - 1794
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 8
990 - 1055
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 9
983 - 1073
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 10
1651 - 1709
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 11
1896 - 1966
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 12