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Dimitrie Barilă better known under his monastical name Dosoftei (October 26 1624—December 13 1693) was a Moldavian Metropolitan scholar poet and translator.Born in Suceava he attended the school of the Trei Ierarhi Monastery of Iaşi and then at the Orthodox Brotherhood school in Lviv where he studied humanities and learned several languages.In 1648 he became a monk at Probota Monastery and was later bishop of Huşi (1658–1660) and Roman (1660–1671) to become Metropolitan bishop of Moldavia (1671–1674 and again 1675-1686).
