Saint Dositheus of Moldavia

Also known as Dosoftei · Dosoftei of Moldavia · Dimitrie Barilă

Metropolitan of Moldavia, scholar and translator who rendered the Psalter into Romanian verse and produced liturgical translations that helped establish Romanian as a liturgical language. He reposed in exile at Żółkiew in 1693.

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Born Dimitrie Barilă, 1624, Suceava; reposed 1693 at Żółkiew (then Poland). Glorified by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 2005.

Sources: Synaxar of the Romanian Saints (sfintiromani.ro); Doxologia (doxologia.ro); Romanian Orthodox Church canonization (2005)