Archbishop of Ohrid

The Archbishop of Ohrid is a historic title given to the primate of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.

The archbishopric was established in 1018 by lowering of the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate and its subjugation to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The autocephaly of the Ohrid Archbishopric remained respected during the periods of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ottoman rule over the region of Macedonia and continued to exist until its abolition in 1767.

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

First Bulgarian Empire Bishops, 893–997

Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure	Birth Name	Title
Saint Clement of Ohrid	893	916		Bishop of Ohrid
Philip		997		Bishop of Ohrid

Archbishopric of Ohrid, 1018–1767

Dorotheos, the Archbishop of Ohrid, and his clerks and boyars were expatriated to Constantinople in 1466 because their anti-Ottoman activities during Skanderbeg's rebellion.[1]

Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure	Birth Name	Title
John I of Debar	1018	1037		Archbishop of Ohrid
Leo	1037	1056		Archbishop of Ohrid
Theodulus I	1056	1065		Archbishop of Ohrid
John II Lampinos	1065	1078		Archbishop of Ohrid
John III	1078	1079		Archbishop of Ohrid
Theophylact	1084	1107		Archbishop of Ohrid
Leo II Mung	1108	1120		Archbishop of Ohrid
Michael Maximos	1120			Archbishop of Ohrid
John IV	1139/43	1160	Adrianos Komnenos	Archbishop of Ohrid
Constantine I	1160			Archbishop of Ohrid
John V Kamateros	1183	1216		Archbishop of Ohrid
Demetrios Chomatianos	1216	1234		Archbishop of Ohrid
Joannicius				Archbishop of Ohrid
Sergius				Archbishop of Ohrid
Constantine II Kabasilas	before 1255	after 1259		Archbishop of Ohrid
Jacob Proarchius	1275	1285		Archbishop of Ohrid
Hadrian				Archbishop of Ohrid
Gennadius				Archbishop of Ohrid
Macarius				Archbishop of Ohrid
Anthimos Metochites	1341	1346		Archbishop of Ohrid
Nicholas I	1346			Archbishop of Ohrid
Gregory II	1364/65			Archbishop of Ohrid
Matthew	1408			Archbishop of Ohrid
Nicodemus	1452			Archbishop of Ohrid
Dositheos I				Archbishop of Ohrid
Dorotheos	1466			Archbishop of Ohrid
Mark Xylokaravis	1466			Archbishop of Ohrid
Nicholas II				Archbishop of Ohrid
Zacharius	1486			Archbishop of Ohrid
Prochorus	1528	1550		Archbishop of Ohrid
Simeon	1550	1557		Archbishop of Ohrid
Nicanor	1557	1565		Archbishop of Ohrid
Paisius	1565			Archbishop of Ohrid
Parthenius I				Archbishop of Ohrid
Sophronius	1567	1572		Archbishop of Ohrid
Gabriel	1572	1588		Archbishop of Ohrid
Theodulus II	1588	1590		Archbishop of Ohrid
Gregory III	1590	1593		Archbishop of Ohrid
Joachim	1593	1596		Archbishop of Ohrid
Athanasius I	1596	1598		Archbishop of Ohrid
Varlaam	1598	1598		Archbishop of Ohrid
Nectarius I	1598	1613		Archbishop of Ohrid
Metrophanes	1614	1616		Archbishop of Ohrid
Nectarius II	1616	1624		Archbishop of Ohrid
Porphyrios Palaiologos	1624	1627		Archbishop of Ohrid
George	1627	1628		Archbishop of Ohrid
Joasaph	1628	1629		Archbishop of Ohrid
Abraham Mesaps	1629	1637		Archbishop of Ohrid
Meletius I	1637	1643		Archbishop of Ohrid
Chariton	1643	1650		Archbishop of Ohrid
Daniel	1650	1652		Archbishop of Ohrid
Dionysius I	1652	1653		Archbishop of Ohrid
Athanasius II	1653			Archbishop of Ohrid
Paphnutius				Archbishop of Ohrid
Ignatius I	1660	1663		Archbishop of Ohrid
Arsenius I	1663	1663		Archbishop of Ohrid
Zosimus	1663	1670		Archbishop of Ohrid
Panaretus	1671	1673		Archbishop of Ohrid
Nectarius III	1673	1676		Archbishop of Ohrid
Ignatius II	1676	1676		Archbishop of Ohrid
Teophanes	1676	1676		Archbishop of Ohrid
Meletius II	1676	1677		Archbishop of Ohrid
Parthenius II	1677	1683		Archbishop of Ohrid
Gregory IV	1683	1688		Archbishop of Ohrid
Germanus	1688	1691		Archbishop of Ohrid
Gregory V	1691	1693		Archbishop of Ohrid
Ignatius III	1693 1703	1695 1706		Archbishop of Ohrid
Zosimus II	1695 1707	1699 1708		Archbishop of Ohrid
Raphael	1699	1702		Archbishop of Ohrid
Germanus II	1702	1702		Archbishop of Ohrid
Dionysius II	1706 1709	1706 1714		Archbishop of Ohrid
Methodius I	1708	1708		Archbishop of Ohrid
Philotheus	1714	1718		Archbishop of Ohrid
Joasaph II	1719	1745		Archbishop of Ohrid
Joseph	1746	1752		Archbishop of Ohrid
Dionysius III	1752	1756		Archbishop of Ohrid
Methodius II	1757	1758		Archbishop of Ohrid
Cyril	1759	1762		Archbishop of Ohrid
Jeremy	1763	1763		Archbishop of Ohrid
Ananias	1763	1763		Archbishop of Ohrid
Arsenius II	1763	1767		Archbishop of Ohrid

Macedonian Orthodox Church

Macedonian Orthodox Church (autonomous), 1959–1967

In 1959, the Macedonian Orthodox Church was declared as the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid. The declaration was celebrated in a common liturgy by Macedonian priests and the Serbian Patriarch German in 1959 in Skopje. The Archbishop Dositheus II was enthroned as Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, continuing in the lineage of the Archbishops of Ohrid.

In 1962, the Serbian Patriarch German II and Russian Patriarch Alexius I visited the Macedonian Orthodox Church on the feast of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in Ohrid. The two patriarchs and the Macedonian Archbishop Dositheus II celebrated Holy Liturgy marking the first occasion where the leader of the Macedonian church met with heads of other Orthodox churches.

Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure	Birth Name	Title
Dositej, Metropolitan of Skopje	1958	1967	Dimitrija Stojkovski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia

Macedonian Orthodox Church (self-proclaimed autocephalous), since 1967

On 19 July 1967, in Ohrid, the Macedonian Orthodox Church declared autocephaly from the Serbian Orthodox Church, a move which was not acknowledged by the Serbian church and most other Orthodox Churches.

Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure	Birth Name	Title
Dositej	1967	1981	Dimitrija Stojkovski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Angelarij Angelarios	1981	1986	Cvetko Krsteski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Gavril II	1986	1991	Gorgi Milošev	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Mihail	1991	1999	Metodija Gogov	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Stefan	1999	present	Stojan Veljanovski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, since 2005

The Macedonian Orthodox Church has an ongoing disagreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church after the separation and declaration of autocephaly in 1967, unrecognized by the Eastern Orthodox churches. After the negotiations between the two churches were suspended, the Macedonian church having rejected the 2002 agreement where the Macedonian church would enjoy recognition as autonomous under the control of the Serbian church, the Serbian church officially recognized the group led by Jovan Vraniškovski, a former bishop of the Macedonian church, as leaders of the Archbishopric of Ohrid under the tutelage of the Serbian Patriarchate in 2005. The Serbian church recognized Vraniškovski's breakaway group as the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid and gave him the title of John VI, Archbishop of Ohrid.

Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure	Birth Name	Title
John VI	2005	current	Zoran Vraniškovski	Archbishop of Ohrid

References

Shukarova, Aneta; Panov, Mitko B.; Georgiev, Dragi; Bitovski, Krste; Katardžiev, Ivan; Stojchev, Vanche; Veljanovski, Novica; Chepreganov, Todor (2008), Chepreganov, Todor (ed.), History of the Macedonian People, Skopje: Institute of National History, p. 133, ISBN 9989-159-24-6, OCLC 276645834, retrieved 26 December 2011, deportation of the Archbishop of Ohrid, Dorotei, to Istanbul in 1466, to-gether with other clerks and bolyars who probably were expatriated be-cause of their anti Ottoman acts during the Skender-Bey’s rebellion.

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[1] Shukarova, Aneta; Panov, Mitko B.; Georgiev, Dragi; Bitovski, Krste; Katardžiev, Ivan; Stojchev, Vanche; Veljanovski, Novica; Chepreganov, Todor (2008), Chepreganov, Todor (ed.), History of the Macedonian People, Skopje: Institute of National History, p. 133, ISBN 9989-159-24-6, OCLC 276645834, retrieved 26 December 2011, deportation of the Archbishop of Ohrid, Dorotei, to Istanbul in 1466, to-gether with other clerks and bolyars who probably were expatriated be-cause of their anti Ottoman acts during the Skender-Bey’s rebellion.