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His Grace

Dositej
His Grace; Dositej
Metropolitan of Zagreb
Native name	Доситеј
Church	Serbian Orthodox Church
Diocese	Metropolitanate of Zagreb
See	Zagreb
Installed	1931
Term ended	1945
Successor	Damaskin
Orders
Rank	Metropolitan bishop
Personal details
Born	Dragutin Vasić; 5 December 1878; Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
Died	13 January 1945 (aged 66); Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Denomination	Eastern Orthodoxy
Alma mater	Kiev Theological Academy

Dositej Vasić (Serbian Cyrillic: Доситеј Васић; 5 December 1878 – 13 January 1945) was the first 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 Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church elected him the bishop of Niš in May 1913. During the World War I, he did not want to leave Niš, so the enemy found him in his residence and interned him as a prisoner of war. Immediately after that, 150 priests were brutally slaughtered by the Bulgarian occupying authorities. He returned from the internment camp to his eparchy in 1918. He was Bishop of Transcarpathia^[2] and vice-president of the Holy Synod and took part in the negotiations with 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

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b Kalkandjieva, Daniela (2014-11-20). The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948: From Decline to Resurrection. Routledge. ISBN 9781317657750.
^ Bulajić, Milan (1988). Ustaški zločini genocida i suđenje Andriji Artukoviću 1986. godine (in Serbian). Rad. ISBN 9788609001369.
^ "T. Vuković: Mržnja i mašta iz Srpske pravoslavne crkve". www.hkv.hr. 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2019-08-26.

Eastern Orthodox Church titles
New title	Metropolitan of Zagreb 1931–1945	Succeeded by Damaskin Grdanički
Preceded by Domentijan Popović	Bishop of Niš 1913–1931	Succeeded by Jovan Ilić