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==Life==
Bishop Dositej was born on [[October 14]], 1949 in the village of Zagoni near Sarajevo. After completing his primary education in [[Thessalonica]], he studied at the [[monasticism|monastic]] school at the [[Ostrog Monastery|Monastery of Ostrog]] before entering the [[seminary]] in Karlovci. He continued his education at the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade. After his graduation, he continued his graduate studies for three years at Regensburg, Germany and Bern, Switzerland.
He was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] in 1970 and subsequently was [[ordination|ordained]] to the [[Holy Orders]]. As a [[parish]] [[priest]] Bp. Dositej served from 1985 to 1988 in Argentina with the missionary diocese of the Church of Serbia and later as Secretary of the Diocesan Board in Toronto, Canada. On [[May 22]], 1990, Bp. Dositej was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] to the episcopate, and, in December 1990, he was appointed the first bishop of the new [[Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Great Britain and Scandinavia|Serbian Diocese of Great Britain and Scandinavia]]. Bp. Dositej is also fluent in German and Spanish.
[[Category: Bishops]]
[[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]]
