Pavle arrived at the helm of the church in 1990, at a time when its power was diminished after the long period of communist rule and when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were just beginning.
Pavle je došao na čelo crkve 1990, u trenutku kada je njena moć bila smanjena posle duge komunističke vladavine i kada su tek počinjali ratovi u bivšoj Jugoslaviji.