Career
Elder Thaddeus was born in 1914 in the village of Vitovnica as Tomislav Štrbulović, the son of honourable worker parents. He became a monk in 1935 in the Gornjak monastery. On July 14 that same year, he became a jerođakon.
He was given the title of jeromonah on February 3, 1938 in the Rakovica monastery.
He became a hegumen in 1949 in Belgrade"s Saborna crkva. Elder Thaddeus was a hegumen at the Vitovnica Monastery from April 14, 1962 until the end of March in 1972.
