Gavril ⅰ – (Ioannina, ⅹⅴⅰ c.) – Ohrid Archbishop (1572-1588; 1592-1593). He participated in the church councils in Constantinople, who were convicted of the new Gregorian calendar (20. 1582) and Patriarch Pahomy Poucher (ⅱ 1585). He was one of the first Ohrid heads traveling to Europe with political goals: he demanded material assistance, but wanted to encourage European countries for war against the Ottoman state. He stayed in Russia and Western Europe. In Russia he traveled accompanied by the Pelagonia-Prilep Metropolitan The stay coincided with the act when Moscow Metropolis grew (1593) in Patriarchate and obtained autocephaly. Regarding the stay in Russia (1582-1587), the Moscow Patriarchate gave material assistance to Archbishop Gavril as the head of an autocephalous local church. For the devastated monastery “St. Martyr Paraskeva “in the village. Velgotos, Ohrid, who was in “Macedonia to Albanian countries,” Russian Emperor Theodore Ivanovich gave 60,000 APRI financial assistance. By Russia left for Poland (1586). He was admitted by Polish King Stephen Battery. Hence he went to Austria (1587). In Prague, the summer of 1588 was retained, when he went for Germany, and then in Rome he was admitted by Pope Sikst V. On these trips, the Archbishop received fine, but not political assistance. Lit.: M. Minoski, the links of the Ohrid Archbishop Gavril with Austria, “Inteller of Ini”, ⅹⅴⅰⅰ, 3, Skopje, 1973; J. Belchovski, a chronological list of the Heads of the Ohrid Archbishopric (Patriarchate), “Annual Proceedings of the Theological Faculty” St. Kliment Ohridski ‘”, KN. 8, Skopje, 2002. Al. TR.
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Кириличен напис ГАВРИЛ Ⅰ