Dosoftei was a prominent 17th-century Moldavian metropolitan, scholar, and translator. Born in Suceava to a Greek family, he received his education at the Trei Ierarhi Monastery in Iaşi and later studied humanities and various languages at the Orthodox Brotherhood school in Lviv. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he served as the bishop of Huşi and Roman before holding the position of Metropolitan of Moldavia. He spent his final years in Poland after moving there in 1686.