Gavrilo IV ( sr-cyr, Гаврило IV, ) was
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
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for a short time during the turbulent year of 1758. He was an ethnic
Greek
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Before Gavrilo became
Serbian Patriarch
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, 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
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, when patriarch Vikentije I died in
Constantinople
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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.
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External links
Official site of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Archbishops and Patriarchs
Gavrilo IV
18th-century Greek people
Greeks from the Ottoman Empire
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