 After that date we find him in Wallachia where in 1580 he signed one Evangelion as “Priest Jovan, a Serb from the town of Kratovo” ("Srbin od mesta Kratova").In Wallachia he is also mentioned as "protopop", "archpriest".Migrations of revered men of church to Wallachia were not uncommon in those days, since there they would find patronage from Christian princes or rich landowners, a strata that did not exist in the Ottoman Empire.