Gavrilo IV, Serbian Patriarch

Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo IV
Српски патријарх Гаврило IV
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Church Serbian Orthodox Church
See Monastery of the Patriarchate of Peć
Installed 1758
Term ended 1758
Predecessor Pajsije II
Successor Kirilo II
Personal details
Nationality Rum Millet
Denomination Eastern Orthodox Christian
Occupation Spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Gavrilo IV (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило, Greek: Γαβριήλ) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch for a short time during the turbulent year of 1758. He was an ethnic Greek.

Before he 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, 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".[1]

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.[1]

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Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Pajsije II
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
1758
Succeeded by
Kirilo II
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