Rupnovius Joachim, (Polon. Rufnowski,)  of Rupnow, a Polish Knight, the son of Nicholas Rupnovius, and Synodical or General Deacon of the Socinian Church, was born towards the close of the sixteenth century. Sandius says, that he first exercised the ministerial office at Racow ; but he is not inserted in Lubieniecius's list of the Ministers of that city. Yet in the Manuscript Acts of the Synod of Lublin, 1610, it is related, that when living at Racow, he resigned the ministerial office. Since, however, it is mentioned in the same Acts, that one Joachim Rupnovius was ordained to the ministry at the Synod of Racow, in the month of May, 1612, and that he was appointed Minister of the Church of Kissielin, on the estate of Czlapic, in Volhynia, by a decree of the same Synod, there were probably two persons bearing the name of Joachim Rupnovius ; for we can hardly suppose that the same individual was twice ordained. In 1618, the one who had officiated as Minister at Racow, was appointed Pastor of the Church of Lachowice. He afterwards settled at Lublin ; and removed, at length, to Beresk, where he died in the year 1641. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Lubieniecius ; and his own daughter, Alexandra, who was the offspring of this marriage, became the wife of Andrew Wissowatius, whose mother was the daughter of Faust Socin. 

The ancestors of Joachim Rupnovius had distinguished themselves during the reign of Boleslav I., surnamed the Great, who ascended the throne of Poland, A. D. 999 ; and the illustrious families of Lutomirski, and Stadnicki, sprang from the same stock. But Rupnovius gloried more in his Christian principles, than in the splendour of his family, or the deeds of his ancestors ; preferring, as the author of the Life of Andrew Wissowatius says, the sacred office of the Christian Ministry to all the honours of the present world. He is described by his contemporaries as a man of universal information ; and left behind him manuscripts on various subjects, but published nothing. The Synodical Acts of the Unitarians in Poland and Transylvania, from 1628 to 1641, were written by him ; and Sandius mentions a remarkable dream, which he had in 1630. He is said to have dreamt of all the calamities, which afterwards befel the Unitarians of Racow, not only as regarded their being deprived of the free exercise of their religion, but the destruction of their Church, College, and Printing-Office ; and of this dream he committed to writing an account in the Polish language.

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