[1] He was styled "His Holiness, the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch".

Dimitrije Pavlović was born on 28 October 1846 in Požarevac, Serbia.

When Inokentije, Metropolitan of Belgrade, died in 1905, Dimitrije was appointed the successor.

On 8 June 1922, he wed King Alexander I and Princess Maria of Romania in the Cathedral Church in Belgrade.

Patriarch Dimitrije died on 6 April 1930 in Belgrade and was buried in the Rakovica monastery.