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Gavrilo

Serbian clergyman
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Also known as: Gavrilo Dožič, Gavrilo Dožitch
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Original name:
Gavrilo Dožič, orDožitch
Born:
May 17, 1881, Morača, Montenegro
Died:
May 7, 1950, Belgrade (aged 68)
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Gavrilo (born May 17, 1881, Morača, Montenegro—died May 7, 1950, Belgrade) was the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1938–50), noted for his anti-Nazi stand and, later, for his limited accommodations with the Communists. Gavrilo was educated at Prizren in Serbia and at Athens and Istanbul. In 1910 he became bishop of Peć and in 1920 metropolitan of Crnagora and Primorje (Montenegro and the Littoral). Elected by 50 out of 59 votes in a secret ballot of bishops to the patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, vacant since the death of Patriarch Varnava on July 24, 1937, he was enthroned ...(100 of 246 words)

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