There was a Pavle I, Serbian Patriarch before.Pavle (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????, English: Paul; 11 September 1914 – 15 November 2009) was the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, from 1990 to his death.
His full title was His Holiness the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Pavle.
Before his death, he was the oldest living leader of an Eastern Orthodox church.
Because of poor health, he spent his last years in the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, while his duties were carried out by Metropolitan Amfilohije.