Gabriel IV of Constantinople

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Ecumenical Patriarch

Gabriel IV (Greek: Γαβριήλ; died 29 June 1785) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1780–1785.

Biography

Gabriel was born in

Metropolitan of Old Patras
. He especially liked the ecclesiastic order and precedence.

In 1780, he was elected

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

  1. ^ "Περιοδικό "Πεμπτουσία"". Archived from the original on 2013-05-31. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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