Gabriel IV of Constantinople

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

His All Holiness Gabriel IV
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church	Church of Constantinople
Diocese	Constantinople
See	Ecumenical Patriarchate
Installed	19 October 1780
Term ended	29 June 1785
Predecessor	Sophronius II
Successor	Procopius
Personal details
Born	unknown Smyrna
Died	29 June 1785
Buried	Church of the Asomatoi (Pammegiston Taxiarchon), Arnavutköy
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation	Ecumenical Patriarch

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.

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.

Sources

• Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο
• Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών: «Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης και η Πάτρα», άρθρο του ιστορικού Κώστα Ν. Τριανταφύλλου στην εφημερίδα «Πελοπόννησος» (19/10/2000)