Joseph of Panephysis

{{Short description|Egyptian monk}}

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| name = Joseph of Panephysis

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| titles =Desert Father
Venerable, Anchorite

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| birth_place = Thmuis, Egypt

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| residence = Scetes

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| death_place = Egypt

| venerated_in =Eastern Orthodox Church
Coptic Orthodox Church

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| feast_day = 17 June

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Joseph of Panephysis, Joseph of Panepho,{{cite book | first=John | last=Wortley | title=Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers | publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press | publication-place=Yonkers, New York | date=2014 | series=Popular Patristics Series | volume=52 | isbn=978-0-88141-497-4 | url=https://svspress.com/give-me-a-word-the-alphabetical-sayings-of-the-desert-fathers/}} or Joseph the Anchorite was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th and 5th centuries in the desert of Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers and was a contemporary for Abbas Poemen and Lot, who sometimes consulted him.{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Benedicta|title=The sayings of the Desert Fathers: the alphabetical collection|publisher=Cistercian Publications|publication-place=Kalamazoo, MI|year=1984|isbn=0-87907-959-2}}