Vićentije Rakić (29 April 1750 – 29 March 1818) was a Serbian writer, poet, priest, philanthropist and a disciple of Dositej Obradović.
That same year he sold his house, business, and went to the Fenek Monastery, where Abbot Sofronije Stefanović gave him his monastic name of Vićentije after being tonsured on 9 April 1786.
[1] That year he was ordained deacon at Karlovci by Ćirilo Živković, and priest by Vladika Stefan Stratimirović, and appointed to a parish at Šabac, where he delivered sermons for which, along with Život Aleksije čoveka Božiega, written in verse, he became recognized as a promising orator and author.
At any rate, his studies supplied him with that fund of general knowledge he was later to say was indispensable for a writer and poet and with fondness and respect for those authors he would later emulate, namely Dositej Obradović.
Obradović, now Minister of Education, summoned Rakić from Trieste to help him establish both a university (Grande école in 1808) and a theological college (in 1810).