Kirilo II, Serbian Patriarch

Kirilo II
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
ChurchSerbian Patriarchate of Peć
SeePatriarchate of Peć Monastery
Installed1759
Term ended1763
PredecessorGavrilo IV
SuccessorVasilije I
Personal details
DenominationEastern Orthodoxy

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

In 1758, internal crisis and struggles in the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć resulted in deposition of 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 ethnic Serbian clergy. One of Serbian metropolitans, Vasilije Jovanović-Brkić of Dabar and Bosnia managed to depose and succeed patriarch Kirilo II in 1763, becoming new Serbian patriarch as Vasilije I.[3]

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