25 February 1769 – The future metropolitan Lupu Dionisie was born in Blăjani, county of Buzău. Monk in 1785, maybe at the Metropolitan See of Bucharest, he remained in its service; abbot at Dealu Monastery (1795 – 1807), which he restores, then at Tismana (1807 – 1810), titular hierarch (since 1801). In May 1819, he is elected and enthroned Metropolitan of Wallachia, serving till the time of the revolution of Tudor Vladimirescu (April – May 1821) when he left Bucharest, taking refuge in Brașov; back in Bucharest only in 1827. As Metropolitan, he paid all the debts of the Metropolitan See, took measures in favour of the priests, removing many of the abuses of the “Phanariot epoch”; he supervised the schools in the eparchy, sent four young men to study at the University of Pisa.
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