Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric

The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric is denied registration by the state authorities.

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (autonomous)

A Short History of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (Ohrid, 2007)

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, an autonomous archbishopric under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

On 25 December 2003, he was elected Chairman of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, after it had been constituted.

He presides over the Holy Synod of Hierarchs of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, consisting of 4 metropolitans and titular bishops.

As of 2009, the Macedonian Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric is headed by Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid and Macedonia.

Today, the primates of the Macedonian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric are both claimants to the title of Archbishop of Ohrid.

The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was formed in 2002 following a failure in negotiations between the Macedonian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Archbishop Jovan Vraniškovski and other members of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric were physically attacked on a number of occasions and the churches they have built or used have been destroyed.

In the same manner, illegally and without a court order, the monks of four monasteries, were expelled from their monasteries, i.e. homes, in January 2004, immediately after joining the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.

In turn, the Serbian Orthodox Church granted full autonomy to the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, its embattled branch in the Republic of Macedonia, in late May 2005 and appointed Jovan as its Archbishop.

The Serbs of Macedonia follow the Serbian Orthodox Church, with their see of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, as opposed to Macedonians who claim a different origin (disputed) who follow the unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church.

The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric has been refused registration by the Macedonian State Religion Commission on the grounds that one group may be registered for each confession and that the name was not sufficiently distinct from that of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC).