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His Eminence '''Gavril (Calimachi) of Moldavia''' was a hierarch of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Constantinople Patriarchate]] in the latter decades of the eighteenth century who took part in the political maneuvering in Moldavia and Walachia during the reign of Catherine the Great in Russia. He was metropolitan of Moldavia from 1760 to 1786.{{stub]]

Little is known of the early life of Metr. Gavril. He was [[archdeacon]] of the Ecumenical Constantinople Patriarchate, then [[Metropolis of Thessalonica|Metropolitan of Thessalonica]] for fifteen years before his arrival in Moldavia as Church relations between the Romanians and Russians turned from a cultural and spiritual level to that of committed politics involving freeing the area from Ottoman Turkish rule. After the murder of his nephew, Gregory Callimachi, Metr. Gavril became the actual leader of Moldavia. In December 1769, he sponsored a delegation to Russia that was joined by one from Walachia seeking support in freeing themselves from Turkish oppression. The Moldavian delegation led by [[Bishop]] Innocent of Hus included: Bartholomew Mazareanu ([[Igumen]] of the Monastery of Solca), Benedict Teodorovici (Igumen of the Monastery of Moldovia), John Paladi who dies during the trip, and Enache Milo.