[1] The family Hungarian nobility was given to Vojislav (Albert) and Jovan Putnik from Bačka County in 1736.
According to the practice of that time, he became a deacon in celibacy at the court of Metropolitan Stefan (Stratimirović), who gathered learned people around him.
As a confidential person, on the order of Metropolitan Stefan (Stratimirović), he mediated for the Tican's rebellion in Srem to end in a peaceful way.
For some time, he taught at the Serbian Orthodox High School in Karlovac, as the third professor in a row, succeeding Peter (Jovanović) and Gideon (Petrović), who were also elected bishops.
As Archimandrite of Grgeteg Monastery, he became an administrator on 16 August 1807, and on 12 July 1808, the (thirteenth) bishop of the Diocese of Pakrac.