Josif Jovanović Šakabenta (1743 – 31 December 1805) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the eparchies part of the Habsburg Monarchy, in Croatia and Vojvodina.
On 31 July 1781, Metropolitan Mojsije Putnik consecrated him to the Bishop of Pakrac-Slavonia and the entire Varaždin Generalate.
One of the first and most important jobs that the new Bishop of Pakrac had was to suppress the union at a time that it started a new and lively action in the General Staff of Varaždin.
He was installed for the Diocese of Bačka by Vice-Bishop Joseph Kovač and Bishop of Pakrac Pavle Avakumović on 25 April 1784.
In 1791 he received the title of the royal consular officer and in 1792, with other Orthodox bishops - a member and "magnate" of the assembly of the Hungarian Parliament.