Dorotej of Hilandar
Serbian Orthodox abbot of Hilandar and the protos of Mount Athos from 1356 until 1366.[1][2] He is noted for writing a charter for the monastery of Drenča in 1382.
LifeDrenčaThe village of Braničevo area. The church of Drenča Monastery has a three-foil base combined with an inscribed cross, richly decorated and built of stone and bricks, a slim cupola resting on four free pillars, and an eastern apse with specific sections for the vestry and deacons. The monastery church widens from west side towards the three-part altar space, towards the apse which is a semi-eclipse from inside and five-sided from the outside, and towards the deacon and the vestry , used to be covered with the cross-ceiling.
Drenča Monastery with its Church dedicated to the Presentation of the Holy Virgin was long time in ruins to experience eventually its thorough reconstruction at the beginning of the second Millennium and gather again religious people from the Zupa region, near Aleksandrovac .
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