Kirilo II, Serbian Patriarch

Kirilo II
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Church Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
See Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
Installed 1759
Term ended 1763
Predecessor Gavrilo IV
Successor Vasilije I
Personal details
Nationality Rum Millet
Denomination Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Kirilo II (Serbian Cyrillic: Кирило II, Greek: Κύριλλος Β΄) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1759 to 1763. He was an ethnic Greek.[1]

In 1758, internal crisis and struggles in the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć resulted in deposition of Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo IV, and soon after that another ethnic Greek — metropolitan Cyril (Greek: Κύριλλος), was appointed at his place, becoming Serbian Patriarch "Kirilo II". New patriarch had to face many difficulties, since the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was in great debt,[2] and he also faced some internal opposition among Serbian clergy. One of Serbian metropolitans, Vasilije Jovanović of Dabar and Bosnia managed to depose and succeed patriarch Kirilo II in 1763, becoming new Serbian patriarch as "Vasilije I".[3]

References

  1. ↑ Вуковић 1996, p. 276-277.
  2. ↑ Ćirković 2004, p. 177.
  3. ↑ Вуковић 1996, p. 61.

Sources

  • Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Fotić, Aleksandar (2008). "Serbian Orthodox Church". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 519–520.
  • Kašić, Dušan, ed. (1965). Serbian Orthodox Church: Its past and present. 1. Belgrade: Serbian Orthodox Church.
  • Pavlovich, Paul (1989). The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Heritage Books.
  • Слијепчевић, Ђоко М. (1962). Историја Српске православне цркве (History of the Serbian Orthodox Church). књ. 1. Минхен: Искра.
  • Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Београд: Евро.
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Gavrilo IV		 Serbian Patriarch
1759–1763		 Succeeded by
Vasilije I
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