Joasaph (
Greek: Ιωάσαφ;
Bulgarian: Йоа́саф ;
Russian: Иоаса́ф,
romanized: Ioasaf) 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.[1] 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
^Budge, E. A. Wallis. Baralam and Yewasef: the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. London; New York: Kegan Paul. p.
39.
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