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 (1292–1382), 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 (died 1556), Metropolitan of Moscow from 1539 to 1542 Joasaph II of Constantinople (), 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

See also Josaphat (disambiguation)

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