Joasaph
Joasaph 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, Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354, assumed the name Joasaph Christodoulos after his retirement to a monastery
- Joasaph I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Joasaphus, [Metropolitan of Moscow], Metropolitan of Moscow from 1539 to 1542
- Joasaph II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Patriarch Joasaphus I of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 1634 to 1640
- Joasaph of Belgorod, bishop of Belgorod
- Joasaph Bolotov, Russian Orthodox missionary in Alaska
- Ioasaf Tikhomirov, Russian actor
- Joasaph Leliukhin, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia and Exarch of Ukraine
- Joasaph (McLellan), Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia