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	Macedonia
		The Serbian government was found to have financially supported this group, known as the "Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid." The Government, with general support from the majority of the public, openly sided with the Macedonian Orthodox Church in the long-running dispute.
		In July 2004, Zoran Vraniskovski, recognized by the Serbian Orthodox Church as Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid, was convicted in a Bitola court of "inciting religious and ethnic hatred." In June 2005, an appeals court upheld the verdict and Vraniskovski reported to prison in July 2005.
		In September 2004 a Polish-born nun associated with the "Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid" claimed that the Ministry of Interior declined to extend her residency permit because of her affiliation with that group.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71394.htm (3401 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The autocephaly of the Ohrid Archbishopric remained respected during the periods of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ottoman rule and the church continued to exist under the name &#8220;Archbishopric of the Justiniana Prima and all Bulgaria” until its unlawful abolition in 1767.
		The Bulgarian diocese was subordinated to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		After the Christian population of the bishoprics of Skopje and Ohrid voted in 1874 overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Exarchate (Skopje by 91%, Ohrid by 97%), the Bulgarian Exarchate became in control of the whole of Vardar and Pirin Macedonia.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church (2952 words)

	Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was formed in 2002 following a failure in negociations between the Serb Orthodox Church and the canon ically-unconstitutional and unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC).
		Metropolitan Jovan (Vraniovski) of Veles -Povardarje and Exarch of Ohrid
		The Archbishopric's language is Macedonian and all of its clergy are ethnic Slav Macedonians.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Orthodox-Ohrid-Archbishopric.htm (237 words)

	Were Russian Princess Olga and the famous Prince Vladimir Christianised in Ohrid?
		The Russian Church, according to Priselkov, was one of the parishes of the Ohrid Archbishopric.
		Having in mind that in that period Ohrid Archbishopric concentrated in itself the spiritual life of the Slav people, had high authority in the Christian affairs and demonstrated great influence on the spiritual life of the neighboring Slav people, it is quite understandable why Olga chose to seek help from Ohrid.
		Branko Panov concluded: "The essence of the autocephaly of the Ohrid Archbishopric was in the fact that the Ohrid Archbishop had the right to rule the eparchies in his diocese (in Samuel's time their number was 32, later it was reduced to 25, with a constant tendency to decreasing, - editorial note).
	www.macedonia.co.uk /mcic/aboutmacedonia/religion/russian.asp (2753 words)

	Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was formed in 2002 following a failure in negotiations between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the canonically -unconstitutional and unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC).
		Whereas the Holy Synod of the MOC rejected the so-called NiÅ¡ agreement, one bishop broke rank and agreed to form the autonomous church under tutelage of the Belgrade Patriarchy.
		The MOC has reacted by ordering the state authorities to issue arrest warrants for all clergy of the Ohrid Archbishopric, to prevent bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Macedonia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthodox_Ohrid_Archbishopric (223 words)

	Tsar Samuil
		The Archbishopric of Ohrid and The Macedonian Orthodox Church
		The Archbishopric of Ohrid was established at the time of Samuil, and Ohrid became the religious centre and the capital of the Empire.
		In Ohrid Samuil built imperial palaces and a church to be the seat of the Macedonian church.
	www.mymacedonia.net /history/samoil.htm (2109 words)

	Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid (Ohrid Archbishopric, Archbishopric of First Justiniana and all Bulgaria) was an autonomous Bulgarian Orthodox Church under the tutelage of the Patriarch of Constantinople between 1019 and 1767, seated in Ohrid.
		The archbishopric was established in 1019 by lowering of the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate and its subjugation to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		The autocephaly of the Ohrid Archbishopric remained respected during the periods of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ottoman rule and the church continued to exist until its abolition in 1767.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Bulgarian_Archbishopric_of_Ohrid (298 words)

	Ohrid - Macedonia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ohrid is the early Christian church center, the seat of the first an-Slovanic university in Europe, through the activity and the human mission of St. Clement of Ohrid, the first Slav bishop and the patron of the town - the seat of the reputed archbishopry of Ohrid.
		Ohrid is a true legend of Macedonian history and together with the oldest and one of the most beautiful lakes in Europe - the Ohrid Lake, it presents a poetic bravery of nature.
		In the 9th centure A.D., Ohrid was a grand centre of Slavic literacy and cultural activity carried out under the guidance of the Slavic scholar, Kliment (Clement); in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
	members.vienna.at /shrew/ohrid-info.html (774 words)

	macedonia :: the archbishopric of ohrid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		:: THE ABOLITION OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF OHRID ::...
		Expelling Ananias from Ohrid was the last success achieved by church autonomists in Ohrid-by bribing Turkish officials and supporters of the Greek cause among the high clergy of the archbishopric, the patriarchate detached diocese after diocese from it.
		Hence, the sultan's edict, whereby the archbishopric was eliminated, was both canonical and "just." Slavko Dimevski notes that even the edict to abolish the archbishopric by the Ottoman Sultan, a sworn enemy of Christianity, was not as cruel as the decision made by the patriarchate to obliterate the existence of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.
	macedonia.cjb.net /religion/church_old.htm (1838 words)

	OHRID
		It was in this town that Kliment of Ohrid established the Archbishopric of Ohrid.
		In the 10th and 11th century's, Ohrid became the capital of the Macedonia Tsar Samuel, the walls of the fortress, 16 meters high, still survive, and now concert operas and plays are given within them each summer.
		The church of St. Jovan of the Kaneo was erected in the 13th century on the cliff overhanging lake Ohrid.
	www.cybermacedonia.com /ohrid.html (471 words)

	St. Clement Cathedral - Religion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Archbishop of the Saint Clement Ohrid Archbishopric and Head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church
		In the following years, Bishop Stefan served as dean of the Theological Faculty in Skopje, spokesman for the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, as editor in chief of the church's official gazette "Crkoven zivot," and as secretary-general of the Archbishopric of Ohrid and Macedonia.
		In Ohrid on 9 and 10 October 1999, the Church National Assembly -- a congregation of clerics and laymen -- elected Bishop Stefan as head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
	www.stclementofohrid.com /religion/archbishop.htm (369 words)

	The Archbishopric of Ohrid and The Macedonian Orthodox Church
		The success of the komitopulis' uprising and the wresting of Macedonia away from Byzantine rule (the Bulgarian Empire had fallen in the meantime) demanded that ecclesiastical authority be independent of Byzantine authority and lie close to the secular authority of Samuil, both geographically and ideologically.
		The first archbishop of the Archbishopric of Ohrid was Philip, who retained this position from its foundation until the murder of Gavril Radomir in 1015.
		Cyril and Methodius, St. Clement of Ohrid, one of the founders of Slavonic culture and literacy.
	www.mymacedonia.net /religion/archbishopric.htm (814 words)

	The Modern Macedonian Language
		Also, the fact that a center of Slavic religious and literary activity arose in Ohrid at the end of the ninth century, and the fact that this city became the seat of the patriarchate under Tsar Samuil (976-1014) are significant for medieval 51 cultural history, and especially for the development of the Church Slavonic language.
		The existence of an autonomous ecclesiastical organization in a Macedonian town until 1767, when the Ohrid archbishopric was abolished, gave the entire region a special significance regardless of the historical changes which took place during that long period.
		However, the fact that the Ohrid archbishopric was soon headed exclusively by Greek archbishops, and that Greek was its official language contributed to the spread of Greek cultural and linguistic influence in Macedonia especially during the Turkish period.
	www.mymacedonia.net /language/modern.htm (658 words)

	Macedonian Orthodox Church
		Following the dissolution of Dushan's Kingdom, the jurisdiction of the Ohrid Archbishopric was divided among existing despoties and states such as the Kingdom of Volkashin, which included the seat of the Arch bishopric, Ohrid, the Hlaten despoty, Simeon's Kingdom in Epirus and southern Albania, the Elbansan Duchy, and the despoty of Velbuz.
		The leadeship of the Serbian Orthodox Church was unrelenting towards the re-establishment of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, and towards the organizing of the Macedon ian Church.
		The decision for the restoration of the Ohrid Archbishopric that was announced in the cathedral church of St. Sofia in Ohrid was received with overwhelming delight, expressed in tears of joy, prayers of thanks and frenetic applause.
	www.macedonianchurch.org /HistoryofMacedonianOrthodoxChurch.htm (13956 words)

	History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part XVIII, by Risto Stefov
		Henceforth the Archbishops of Ohrid and the bishops of the churches in the Ohrid Archbishopric were regularly elected from the ranks of the Koine speaking clergy.
		The Archbishopric of Ohrid was slowly becoming a Koine speaking institution designed to destroy the Macedonian traditions, which had been nurtured over the years.
		The power of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, which was somewhat eroded by the Serbian Church becoming autocephalous in 1219, was now further eroded with the formation of the new Bulgarian Patriarchate.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/stefov/stefov38_print.html (10576 words)

	Stefan DuÅ¡an - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After these successes he proclaimed himself in 1345 as tsar in Ser and was solemnly crowned in Skopje on April 16, 1346 as "Tsar and autocrat of Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians " by Serbian Patriach Janichie II with the help of the Bulgarian Patriarch Simeon and the Archbishop of Ohrid, Nikolas.
		At the same time he raised the rank of the Serbian Orthodox Church from archbishopric to patriarchate, took over sovereignty on Mt.
		Athos and the Greek archbishoprics under the rule of the Constantinople Patriarchate (The Ohrid Archbishopric remain independent).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stefan_Dusan (816 words)

	Macedonia FAQ: The Archbishopric of Ohrid and the Macedonian Orthodox Church
		In the Ottoman state the archbishops of Ohrid, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries, took on the role of popular leaders in the movement for liberation, carrying on talks, predominantly with Austria, concerning the formation of a state for the captive Christians, primarily the Macedonians.
		In 1767, the financial difficulties of the Archbishopric of Ohrid were used as a pretext and it was discontinued by agreement of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Ottoman authorities.
		It is quite comprehensible that in the 19th century, in the struggle for cultural emancipation in Macedonia, the question of the revival of the Archbishopric of Ohrid was also posed.
	faq.macedonia.org /religion/ohrid.archbishopric.html (1180 words)

	OHRID AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
		With the Pope’s permission the church at that time, was given a status of a Patriarchate, so until 1767 the town of Ohrid was the seat of the Ohrid Archbishopric.
		The spiritual center used to have more than 300 churches where a lot of work was done, leaving many traces within the Byzantine art and the Renaissance in many domains like: the literature, the icon painting, the fresco painting, the architecture, the music etc. The fresco painting dominates in many churches being a priceless treasure.
		The modern town of Ohrid, is nowadays a spiritual, cultural and tourist center in Macedonia.
	www.ohrid.org.mk /eng (640 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		As chairman of the Holy Synod of the Ohrid Archbishopric, Metropolitan Jovan applied for registration to the state religion committee on 6 September 2004.
		Since the Ohrid Archbishopric was granted autocephalous (independent) status by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2002, its priests, monks and believers have been under pressure from both the Macedonian government and the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC).
		The Committee also declared that the headquarters of the religious group should be in Macedonia, while the statute of the Ohrid Archbishopric shows that, although formally autocephalous, it is in reality part of the Serbian Orthodox Church, a foreign religious body.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=505 (1198 words)

	T O M O S on the church autonomy of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
		to the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje
		The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was constituted on the 25th of December in the year of our Lord 2003, who had elected His Eminence, the Metropolitan of Veles and Vardar Valley kyr John to be the Chairman thereof.
		All the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church, movable and immovable, situated in the region of the aforesaid holy dioceses, i.e., eparchies, is hereby given to possession to the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.
	digilander.libero.it /jaroslavl/OHRID.htm (515 words)

	macedonia :: the macedonian orthodox church (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite the fact that Greek-Byzantine clergy was installed at its head, as was the case in the rest of Eastern Orthodox autocephalous Churches, during the almost 8 centuries of existence, the Archbishopric played a crucial role for the Macedonian people in their survival in the difficult periods of subjugation until its uncanonical abolition in 1767.
		Considering the fact that, for purpose of their identification, most of the spiritual centuries on the territory under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Ohrid were always classified by the adjective of the people to which they belonged, the spiritual culture of the Macedonian people has been classified as a Macedonian spiritual culture.
		In the period after the abolition of the Archbishopric of Ohrid (1767), the Macedonian eparchies were annexed to the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople.
	macedonia.cjb.net /religion/church.htm (1262 words)

	raid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Father David of the SOC Ohrid Archbishopric complained to Forum 18 of a "new wave" of police intimidation launched last December.
		Father David of the Archbishopric complained to Forum 18 on 9 February of a "new wave" of intimidation he says the police launched in December 2004 against Serbian Orthodox believers in Prilep and Resen, in southern Macedonia.
		Metropolitan Jovan, the head of the SOC Archbishopric of Ohrid, is awaiting the results of an appeal against an 18 month jail sentence imposed on him (see F18News 4 February 2005 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=505).
	orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /160/raid.htm (1288 words)

	Za crkvite vo Ohrid i ohridsko, Republika Makedonija
		The significance of Ohrid as distinguished church center is reflected especially with the construction of lots of temples in the town itself and its environment.
		The Ohrid Archbishopric began to develop with the activities of the bishops Clement and Naum of Ohrid, immediate students of Cyril and Methodius, in the time when Ohrid was becoming significant cultural and education center.
		In Ohrid and its environment there are several churches, which by their form belong to the type of churches with written cross with cupola situated above the central space that belong to the period of 13th and 14th century.
	www.culture.org.mk /eZACROH.HTM (1312 words)

	Macedonian Orthodox Church at AllExperts
		The MOC claims continuity with historicalBulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid, an autonomous Eastern Orthodox Church under the tutelage of the Patriarch of Constantinople, which existed between 1019 and 1767, but the claims are not recognized by other Orthodox churches.
		In 1019 an Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid was established within the borders of Bulgaria.
		In 1767 the Archbishopric was abolished by the Turkish authorities and annexed to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/macedonian_orthodox_church.htm (1315 words)

	City of OHRID official web portal - Home
		The city of Ohrid from the 25th until 28th of October is the host of the first World Conference of Religion.
		This project is an idea of the local self-government of Ohrid and the Mayor Aleksandar Petreski, before the holding of the World Conference of Religions in Ohrid in the middle of October entitled as...
		This light shines from the ever-present spirit of the saint-protector of the city, the founder of the Ohrid archbishopric and its first bishop.
	www.ohrid.com.mk (247 words)

	Ohrid
		Ohrid (ancient Lichnydos) is a leading tourist center on the shore of beautiful Lake Ohrid.
		The cathetral church of Sveta Sofija (The Holy Wisdom), which was the seat of the Archbishopric of Ohrid for several centuries is is the oldest surviving church in Ohrid.
		Only a few meters further on it flows into Lake Ohrid, from which it emerges on the other end of the lake to flow through the little town of Struga.
	www.b-info.com /places/Macedonia/republic/images/citiesOhrid.shtml (315 words)

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