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Arsenije came to [[w:Peć|Peć]]] as a boy and later was [[tonsure]]d and [[ordination|ordain]]ed a [[deacon]] and then a [[priest]]. In his early years he was elected [[archimandrite]] of Peć [[Monastery]] in 1665. When Patriarch [[Maximus I of Pec|Maksim]] suffered a stroke, Arsenije was elected as [[Metropolitan]] of Hvosno and as the coadjutor of the patriarch. He was [[Consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] [[bishop]] by the metropolitans of a patriarchal [[synod]] on the [[Feast]] of the [[Ascension]], 1669. In the same year, he visited Dečani Monastery in the patriarch's name. When it was clear that patriarch's condition would not improve, Arsenije was elected patriarch in 1672, probably between [[Easter]] and Ascension.

The next year, the new patriarch visited the Serbs in the coast lands who were under the control of Venice. He met the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] archbishop of Bar , Andrija Zmajević, who was SerbianSerb, and also member of Crnojevici family, in order to contact European powers for the protection of Christians under Turkish rule. He also visited his flock in Bosnia in 1674 and in Braničevo and Srem in 1676. The following year he went to Žiča Monastery, then to Braničevo; he also visited Smederevo in 1680. All these visits were in order to give spiritual support to the Serbian people. In 1682 Arsenije decided to make a [[pilgrim]]age to Jerusalem. Before leaving, he visited Metropolitan Teofan of Skoplje and Bishop Ananija of Karatovo.