Joasaph of Belgorod


Ioasaph of Belgorod
Saint Joasaph of Belgorod
Born8 (19) September 1705
Priluki, Pryluky Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate, Tsardom of Russia
Died10 (21) December 1754
Grayvoron, Belgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Venerated inEastern Orthodoxy
Major shrineCathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Belgorod, Russia
Feast10 December

Joasaph of Belgorod (‹See Tfd›Russian: Иоасаф Белгородский, Ukrainian: Йоаса́ф Бєлгородський, secular name Ioakim Andreyevich Gorlenko, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Иоаким Андреевич Горленко; 8 (19) September 1705 – 10 (21) December 1754) was an 18th-century Russian Orthodox hierarch, bishop of Belgorod from 1748 until his death.

His remains were found to be incorrupt, and after many miracles he was glorified by the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1911. Stolen from his shrine in 1917, the saint's body was thought to be lost but was eventually found in storage in a museum and returned to Belgorod in 1991.