Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch

Gavrilo Dožić (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Дожић; 17 May 1881 – 7 May 1950), also known as Gavrilo V, was the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral (1920–1938) and the 41st Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1938 to 1950.


Gavrilo V
Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch
ChurchSerbian Orthodox Church
SeeBelgrade
Installed21 February 1938
Term ended7 May 1950 (his death)
PredecessorVarnava I
SuccessorVikentije II
Orders
Ordination1900
Consecration1911
Personal details
Born
Đorđe Dožić

17 May 1881
Vrujci, Principality of Montenegro
Died7 May 1950 (aged 68)
Belgrade, Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Styles of
Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo V
Reference styleHis Holiness
Spoken styleYour Holiness
Religious stylePatriarch
Posthumous styleHis Holiness Patriarch Gavrilo V of Blessed Repose
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