Kirilo II ( sr-cyr, Кирило II, el, Κύριλλος Β΄) was

Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch This article lists the heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since the establishment of the church as an autocephalous archbishopric in 1219 to today's patriarchate. The list includes all the archbishops and patriarchs that led the Serbian Ortho ...

from 1759 to 1763. He was an ethnic

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. In 1758, internal crisis and struggles in the

Serbian Patriarchate of Peć The Serbian Patriarchate of Peć ( sr, Српска патријаршија у Пећи, ''Srpska patrijaršija u Peći'') or just Patriarchate of Peć ( sr, Пећка патријаршија, ''Pećka patrijaršija''), was an autocephalous ...

resulted in deposition of

Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo IV Gavrilo IV ( sr-cyr, Гаврило IV, el, ) 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 unkno ...

, and soon after that another ethnic Greek — metropolitan Cyril ( el, Κύριλλος), was appointed at his place, becoming Serbian Patriarch "Kirilo II". New patriarch had to face many difficulties, since the

was in great debt, and he also faced some internal opposition among Serbian clergy. One of Serbian metropolitans, Vasilije Jovanović-Brkić of Dabar and Bosnia managed to depose and succeed patriarch Kirilo II in 1763, becoming new Serbian patriarch as Vasilije I.

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Official site of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Archbishops and Patriarchs
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