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Dosoftei
Dimitrie Barilă, known as Dosoftei (26 October 1624 - 13 December 1693) was a Moldavian metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator.
Born in Suceava, he studied at the college of the "Trei Ierarhi" Monastery of Iaşi and then at the school of Orthodox Brotherhood of Lviv, where he studied humanist sciences and languages.
In 1648 he became a monk at Proboto under the name of Dosoftei. He was elected bishop of Huşi (1658-1660) and Roman (1660-1671) to become metropolitan of Moldavia (1671-1674 and 1675-1686). In 1886 he moved to Poland where he stayed for the rest of his life.
He was one of the greatest Romanian scholars of the 17th century, the first important Romanian language poet and the first translator to Romanian of literature and historical treaties as well as the first translator religious scriptures of Moldavia. His most famous work is the Romanian versified psalter.
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