Dositheus (; grc-gre, Δωσίθεος, ''Dōsítheos'') is a Greek masculine given name, and it may refer to:
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Dositheos (Samaritan)
Dositheos (occasionally also known as Nathanael, both meaning "gift of God") was a Samaritan religious leader of Arab origins. He was the founder of a Samaritan sect often assumed to be Gnostic in nature, and is reputed to have known John the Ba ...
(fl. 1st century), Gnostic
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Dositheus Magister Dositheus Magister ( grc, Δωσίθεος) was a Greek grammarian who flourished in Rome in the 4th century AD.
Life
He was the author of a Greek translation of a Latin grammar, intended to assist the Greek-speaking inhabitants of the empire in le ...
(fl. 4th century), Roman grammarian and jurist
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Dositheus of Constantinople
Dositheus of Jerusalem (? – after 1191) was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (for 9 days in February 1189, and again from September/October 1189 until he was restored as Patriarch of Jerusalem on 3 September 1191 and abdicated as Pa ...
(died after 1191), or Dositheus I of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch
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Dositheos II of Jerusalem
Dositheus II Notaras of Jerusalem ( el, Δοσίθεος Β΄ Ἱεροσολύμων; Arachova 31 May 1641 – Constantinople 8 February 1707) was the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem between 1669 and 1707 and a theologian of the Eastern Or ...
(1641–1707), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem 1669–1707
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Dositheus of Tbilisi (died 1795), Georgian Orthodox archbishop
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Dositheus (Ivanchenko) (1884–1984), bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, bishop of Brooklyn
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Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...
, Serbian monk, author, and educator.
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Dositej Vasić
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.
Biography
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, metropolitan of Serbian Orthodox Church.
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Dositej II, Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia.
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