Dositej Vasić

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His Grace

Dositej
Metropolitan of Zagreb
Native name
Доситеј
ChurchSerbian Orthodox Church
DioceseMetropolitanate of Zagreb
SeeZagreb
Installed1931
Term ended1945
SuccessorDamaskin
Orders
RankMetropolitan bishop
Personal details
Born
Dragutin Vasić

(1878-12-05)5 December 1878
Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
Died13 January 1945(1945-01-13) (aged 66)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
DenominationEastern Orthodoxy
Alma materKiev Theological Academy

Dositej Vasić (

Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Zagreb and a victim of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia.[1]

Life

Dragutin Vasić was born on 5 December 1887 in Belgrade. He graduated and acquired the master's degree in 1904 at the Kiev Theological Academy. After that, he graduated philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig.

The

Patriarchate of Constantinople about the re-establishment of the Serbian Patriarchate in 1920. Upon the establishment of the Metropolitanate of Zagreb, the bishop Dositej was ordained its first metropolitan.[2]

He died on 13 January 1945 as a consequence of the brutal torture he had suffered in Zagreb prison, in which Roman Catholic nuns participated as well.[3] He was buried in the churchyard of the Vavedenje Monastery in Belgrade.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik. The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Genocide of Serbs on the Territory of the "Independent State of Croatia"". OrthoChristian.Com. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
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  4. ^ "T. Vuković: Mržnja i mašta iz Srpske pravoslavne crkve". www.hkv.hr. 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
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Eastern Orthodox Church titles
New title Metropolitan of Zagreb
1931–1945 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Niš
1913–1931 		Succeeded by
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