Gavrilo IV, Serbian Patriarch explained

Gavrilo IV
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Church:Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
See:Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
Enthroned:1758
Ended:1758
Predecessor:Pajsije II
Successor:Kirilo II
Nationality:Rum Millet (Greek)
Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation:Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Gavrilo IV (Serbian: Гаврило IV, Greek, Modern (1453-);: {{lang|grc|Γαβριήλ Δ') was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch for a short time during the turbulent year of 1758. He was an ethnic Greek.

Before Gavrilo became Serbian Patriarch, he was the metropolitan of an unknown eparchy, under Serbian patriarchs Vikentije I and Pajsije II. In 1758, during the great internal turmoil in the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, when patriarch Vikentije I died in Constantinople and his successor Pajsije II seized the patriarchal throne, metropolitan Gavrilo took the opportunity and succeeded in overthrowing patriarch Pajsije II and becoming the new Serbian Patriarch as "Gavrilo IV". His tenure was also very short since his main rival was another ethnic Greek, metropolitan Kirilo, who succeeded in overthrowing Gavrilo IV and becoming the new Serbian Patriarch as Kirilo II.

Sources

. Sima Ćirković. 2004. The Serbs. Malden. Blackwell Publishing. 9781405142915.

. Đoko M. Slijepčević. Историја Српске православне цркве (History of the Serbian Orthodox Church). књ. 1. 1962. Минхен. Искра.

. 1996. Sava Vuković (bishop). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Београд. Евро.

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