Gavrilo III, Serbian Patriarch

Gavrilo III Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило III Николић) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1752 to 1758.[1]

Gavrilo III
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Church	Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
See	Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
Installed	1752
Term ended	1758
Predecessor	Gavrilo II
Successor	Vikentije I
Personal details
Nationality	Rum Millet (Serbian)
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation	Spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Before he became Serbian Patriarch, he was Metropolitan of Niš, under Serbian patriarch Atanasije II.[2] When Atanasije died in 1752, Serbian patriarchal throne was taken by Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Gavrilo Mihailović who also died soon after returning from Constantinople in the autumn of the same year, struck by sudden illness. Before death, he made succession arrangements with metropolitan Gavrilo Nikolić, who was elected new Serbian Patriarch as Gavrilo III.[3] In following years, Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was in constant internal turmoil, accompanied by worsening financial crisis and huge debts.[4] Between 1755 and 1758, Gavrilo III was challenged by rivals and finally lost the patriarchal throne, but in 1761, a group of Serbian bishops and other ecclesiastical leaders who met in Niš tried to bring him back, without final success.[5]

References

1. Вуковић 1996, p. 102-104.
2. Вуковић 1996, p. 102.
3. Вуковић 1996, p. 103.
4. Ćirković 2004, p. 177.
5. Вуковић 1996, p. 104.

Sources

• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Fotić, Aleksandar (2008). "Serbian Orthodox Church". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 519–520.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Kašić, Dušan, ed. (1965). Serbian Orthodox Church: Its past and present. 1. Belgrade: Serbian Orthodox Church.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Pavlovich, Paul (1989). The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Heritage Books.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Слијепчевић, Ђоко М. (1962). Историја Српске православне цркве (History of the Serbian Orthodox Church). књ. 1. Минхен: Искра.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Београд: Евро.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Љ. Дурковић- Јакшић: „Покушај Црквене конференције у Нишу 1761. да поврати патријарха Гаврила III на пећки престо,“ у: Зборник Православног богословског факултета II, Београд 1951, 135- 139.

External links

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