German (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????, English equivalent: Herman; 19 August 1899 – 27 August 1991) was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990.
Nicknamed the red patriarch (Serbian: ?????? ?????????) by his opponents, he was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a certain extent during the Communist period, despite two schisms that occurred during his tenure.The full title of German was: His Holiness, the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch German (Serbian: ?????? ???????, ??????????? ?????, ?????????? ??????????-?????????? ? ????????? ??????, ???????? ???????? ??????)