11 Facts About Dimitrie Eustatievici

Dimitrie Eustatievici was an Austrian philologist, scholar and pedagogue.

Dimitrie Eustatievici was in charge of all the schools professing the Eastern Orthodox faith in the Habsburg Empire.

Dimitrie Eustatievici was from a Serbian family that came from Old Serbia and gave to the Orthodox community of that region several priests and schoolmasters.

Dimitrie Eustatievici's father was able to secure a stipend for his son to study at the prestigious Kyiv Theological Academy from Serbian bishop Visarion Pavlovic who readily sponsored Serbian and Romanian high school graduates wanting a teaching career.

In spite of the obstacles placed in his path, Novakovic and Dimitrie Eustatievici worked to organize the revived diocese.

Dimitrie Eustatievici had ordained 198 of these, while the remainder were ordained either in Wallachia and Moldavia or by Serbian bishops in Arad and Timisoara.

Dimitrie Eustatievici's findings constitute the oldest detailed listing of Orthodox priests in Transylvania.

Later, Dimitrie Eustatievici served as secretary of the new vicar Ioan Popovici, an archpriest in Hondol, Hunedoara County, who held the post for ten years until 1784.

Ghedeon Niketici was the last Serbian bishop whom Dimitrie Eustatievici served as secretary.

Dimitrie Eustatievici spoke Serbian, Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, German, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic.

Dimitrie Eustatievici was a man of distinguished culture, a polyglot and editor of textbooks and manuals, a translator, that is, a personality fit for the age in which he lived.