[2] He took his monastics vows in Zeta, then left for the Hilandar monastery to study[3] and meditate and, where he later became the hegumen (abbot), succeeding Joanikije, holding the office 1162–65.

During his lifetime, Archbishop Jevstatije was considered a true authority of the Serbian Orthodox Church - he went through all the main stages of monastic life.

During his lifetime, he made extraordinary efforts to preserve Orthodoxy in the Archbishopric, especially taking care of the works in the church of the "Ascension of Our Lord" in Žiča, where Jevstatije's body was laid down after he died.

With his hagiographic compositions collected in the famous Monograph, Danilo made decisive steps in shaping the cults of certain Serbian rulers, and then he added to the "Serbian Saints Council" the cults of the Church's "generals" Arsenije, Jevstatije and Joanikije (for the former two he composed both the biography and the service).

By both his hagiographic and hymnographic literary work, he followed the main tendencies of his time and literally and liturgically shaped one of the central ideas in presenting the holy archipriests as worthy heirs to the throne of Saint Sava.