Kirilo II, Serbian Patriarch

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]