Archbishop of Ohrid

On 4 October 1958, the Macedonian Orthodox Church was declared as the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.[2] Archbishop Dositej II was enthroned as Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, continuing in the lineage of the Archbishops of Ohrid. The declaration was retroactively accepted by the Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church on 19 June 1959, and was celebrated in a common liturgy by Archbishop Dositej II and Serbian Patriarch German in Skopje.

In 1962, Serbian Patriarch German and Russian Patriarch Alexy I visited the Macedonian Orthodox Church on the feast of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Ohrid. The two patriarchs and the Macedonian archbishop celebrated Holy Liturgy marking the first occasion where the leader of the Macedonian church met with heads of other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Name	Portrait	Reign	Birth Name	Title
Dositej II		1958–1967	Dimitrije Stojković[3]	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia

Map of the dioceses of the Macedonian Orthodox Church between 1967 and 2013.

Map of the dioceses of the Macedonian Orthodox Church since 2013.

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 other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Name	Portrait	Reign	Birth Name	Title
Dositej II		1967–1981	Dimitrije Stojković[3]	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Angelarij		1981–1986	Cvetko Krsteski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Gavril II		1986–1993	Ǵorǵi Milošev	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Mihail		1993–1999	Metodi Gogov	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
Stefan		1999–present	Stojan Veljanovski	Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia

In 2022, the disagreement between the Macedonian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church over the self-proclaimed autocephaly of the former ended.[4][5] The Macedonian Orthodox Church was recognized as autocephalous by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and some other Eastern Orthodox churches.

Map of the dioceses of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.

The Serbian Orthodox Church had a disagreement with the Macedonian Orthodox Church after its separation and declaration of autocephaly in 1967 and did not recognize it, along with all of the other Eastern Orthodox churches. After the negotiations between the two churches were suspended, the Macedonian church had withdrawn from the 2002 agreement where the Macedonian church would enjoy recognition as autonomous under the control of the Serbian church, the Serbian church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 his group as the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid and gave him the title of Jovan VI, Archbishop of Ohrid.

Name	Portrait	Reign	Birth Name	Title
Jovan VI		2005–present	Zoran Vraniškovski	Archbishop of Ohrid