Career
He succeeded Sofronije Tomašević, and was succeeded by Mojsije Putnik. Visarion Pavlović received his education at the famed Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (now the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), like many Serbs of his generation. Pavlović mentored Mojsije Putnik and Zaharije Orfelin who were then among the most learned men in the Archbishopric.
Thanks to Pavlović, the school had access to all the latest Kievan artistic, literary creations and scientific textbooks such as panegyrics, the contemporary Kievan poetry in Russian Slavonic and books on natural science, astronomy, physics, mathematics, et cetera
The first schools in Vojvodina mentioned in records as early as 1726 were Roman-Catholic primary schools in Novi Sad, and in 1731 there was the Gymnasium Latin-Slavic School of Our Lady founded and maintained by Visarion Pavlović, the Bishop of Bačka. Considering the fact that Serbs, in Novi Sad of that time, were a majority and in addition richer than the ethnic minorities, it is obvious that popular schools in Serbian existed as well.