Veselin Kesich completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Banja Luka and started studies at the University of Belgrade.
When the Nazis were driven out of Yugoslavia by the Allies who allowed Tito and his communists to usurp the Old Order, all the loyal Serbs who fought the invader, succumbed to his wrath, endured four years of humiliation and survived the Yugoslav civil war, decided to leave the country en masse, with many ending in different displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe.
Kesich was sent to one of the most crowded camps at Eboli, near Salerno, wherein 1947 he had the good fortune to be selected to study theology at Dorchester College in England with 40 other students and priests[1] who were at the camp when Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, the Right Reverend Harold Buxton paid a visit.
In 1957 Veselin Kesich married Lydia Weston (1928-2006) who taught Russian language and culture at Saint Vladimir's Seminary for many years.
After retirement, he was a guest lecturer abroad, including the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1991 and at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England in 1998.