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".

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

• Đoko M. Slijepčević (1962). Istorija Srpske pravoslavne crkve. Iskra.
• Sava Vuković (1996). Srpski jerarsi: od devetog do dvadesetog veka. Evro-Unireks-Kalenić. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)