Gabriel IV of Constantinople
Gabriel IV | |
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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
Church | Church of Constantinople |
Diocese | Constantinople |
See | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
Installed | 19 October 1780 |
Term ended | 29 June 1785 |
Predecessor | Sophronius II |
Successor | Procopius |
Personal details | |
Born | unknown |
Died | 29 June 1785 |
Buried | Church of the Asomatoi (Pammegiston Taxiarchon), Arnavutköy |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Occupation | Ecumenical Patriarch |
Gabriel IV (Greek: Γαβριήλ; died 29 June 1785) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1780–1785.
Biography
[edit]Gabriel was born in Smyrna and descended from an aristocratic family. He was bishop of the Ayvalık Islands and later metropolitan bishop of Ioannina until April 1771 when he became Metropolitan of Old Patras. He especially liked the ecclesiastic order and precedence.
In 1780, he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. During his patriarchy, he restored Athanasios Parios, who had been deposed because of the dispute about the kollyva and the memorial service. In 1784, he published the Typikon of Mount Athos, which delimited the administrative and executive domains of its organs.[1]
He died on 29 June 1785 and was buried in the same grave as his predecessor, Sophronius II, in the yard of the Church of the Asomatoi (Pammegiston Taxiarchon) in Arnavutköy.
References
[edit]- ^ "Περιοδικό "Πεμπτουσία"". Archived from the original on 2013-05-31. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
Sources
[edit]- Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο
- Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών: «Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης και η Πάτρα», άρθρο του ιστορικού Κώστα Ν. Τριανταφύλλου στην εφημερίδα «Πελοπόννησος» (19/10/2000)