Gabriel IV of Constantinople
{{Short description|Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1780 to 1785}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Gabriel IV of Constantinople
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| patriarch_of = Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
| enthroned = 8 October 1780
| ended = 29 June 1785
| province =
| diocese = Constantinople
| see = Ecumenical Patriarchate
| church = Church of Constantinople
| predecessor = Sophronius II of Constantinople
| successor = Procopius of Constantinople
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| birth_place = Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = 29 June 1785
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| buried = Church of the Asomatoi (Pammegiston Taxiarchon), Arnavutköy
| religion = Eastern Orthodox Church
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Gabriel IV of Constantinople (Greek: Γαβριήλ; died 29 June 1785) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1780–1785.
Biography
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pemptousia.gr/2013/03/%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CF%82-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%BF/ |title=Περιοδικό "Πεμπτουσία" |access-date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531144722/http://www.pemptousia.gr/2013/03/%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CF%82-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%BF/ |archive-date=31 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}
He died on 29 June 1785 and was buried in the same grave as his predecessor, Sophronius II of Constantinople, in the yard of the Church of the Asomatoi (Pammegiston Taxiarchon) in Arnavutköy.
Notes and references
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Bibliography
- [http://www.ec-patr.org/list/index.php?lang=gr&id=278 Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο].
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080416051400/http://www.i-m-patron.gr/patriarxhs/peloponnisos_001019.html Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών]: «Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης και η Πάτρα», άρθρο του ιστορικού Κώστα Ν. Τριανταφύλλου στην εφημερίδα «Πελοπόννησος» (19 October 2000).
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| before = Sophorius II
| title = Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
| years = 1780 – 1785
| after = Procopius
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Category:18th-century ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople