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Shortly after becoming a [[monk]], Justin, along with several other students, traveled to Petrograd, Russia, to begin a year's study in the Orthodox [[seminary]] there. It was here the young [[monk]] Justin first dedicated himself more fully to Orthodoxy and the monastic way. He learned of the great ascetics of Russia: St. [[Anthony the Great]] and St. [[Theodosius of the Kiev Caves]] in Kiev, St. [[Seraphim of Sarov|Seraphim Sarovsky]], St. [[Sergius of Radonezh]], St. [[John of Kronstadt]], and others.
After his year's study and sojourn in Russia, Justin Popović entered, by the prompting of his spiritual father [[Nikolai Velimirovic|Bishop Nikolaj]], the Theological School in Oxford, England. Justin attended the studies of theology in London in the period 1916-1926, but his doctor's thesis under the title "Filozofija i religija F.M.Dostojevskog" (''The Philosophy and Religion of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|F.M. Dostoevsky]]'') was not accepted<!-- "due to radical criticism of the Western humanism, rationalism, [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman-Catholicism]], and anthropocentrism" was this in the paper, or the background of his critics? --->.
In 1923, Fr. Justin became the editor of the Orthodox journal ''The Christian Life''; and in this journal appeared his first doctoral dissertation, "The Philosophy and Religion of Dostoevsky," for which he was persecuted at Oxford. Together with his fellow colleagues from the Oxford University he has edited the periodical ''The Christian Life'' for twenty years.