About Jovan Vraniškovski
Jovan Vraniškovski (Serbian and Macedonian: Јован Вранишковски; born 28 February 1966), is a Macedonian Orthodox cleric. His current title is Metropolitan Jovan of Kruševo and Demir Hisar of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. He was formerly known as Jovan VI, Metropolitan of Skopje and the Archbishop of Ohrid, as the former head of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (2005–2023). == Life == He was born in Bitola, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia, on 28 February 1966 and christened as Zoran Vraniškovski. Vraniškovski graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Skopje in 1990 and graduated from University of Belgrade's Faculty of Orthodox Theology in 1995. He started his master's studies in the same year and later completed his doctoral dissertation called "The Unity of the Church and the Contemporary Ecclesiological Problems". Vraniškovski was named a monk with the name Jovan (John) in February 1998. In 1998, he was consecrated as a bishop with the title Bishop of Dremvitsa and assigned to be a vicar of the Bishop of Prespa and Pelagonia. In March 2000, he was elected as Bishop of the diocese of Veles. === Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric === Some Macedonian bishops sought to reconcile their differences with the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and negotiated regarding the status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC), which had separated from SOC since its self-declared autocephaly in 1967.
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