Gavrilo Avramović was the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia (around 1578–88). He was the

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of the Patriarch of Peć for

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and was responsible for organizing the

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in the region. Around 1588 he had left

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and Dalmatia, and with the monks of the

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, where he lived, and many people, he moved under the

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government in

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. Metropolitan Avramović is credited with founding of the first Serbian monasteries in Croatia, Marča and Gomorje.

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* ''This article is initially based on'' ''the article from the National Encyclopedia Serbian-Croatian-Slovene, Avramović Gavrilo, written by Radoslav Grujić.''

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* Д. Витковић, Дабро-босански митрополит Гаврило Аврамовић (1912). 16th-century Serbian people Bishops of Dabar-Bosnia Serbs of Croatia History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina 16th-century people from the Ottoman Empire {{Serbia-bio-stub

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