 Later, Eustatievici served as secretary of the new vicar Ioan Popovici, an archpriest in Hondol, Hunedoara County, who held the post for ten years until 1784.Then, on 6 November 1783, Ghedeon Niketici was appointed as Bishop of Transylvania, ordained at Sremski Karlovci on 9 May 1784 and installed at Sibiu on 1 July that year.Ghedeon Niketici was the last Serbian bishop whom Dimitrie Eustatievici served as secretary.