Church Macedonian Nationality Macedonian Successor incumbent | Installed 2013 See Skopje Name Joseph Kumanovo | |
Predecessor none (Kiril as Metropolitan of Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo) Diocese Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo | ||
Dr. Joseph (Macedonian: Јосиф) is the first and current Metropolitan bishop of the Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
Schooling
Metropolitan Josif in 1995 enrolled at the Faculty of Theology “St Clement of Ohrid” in Skopje, where in 2000 earned a bachelor’s degree with thesis topic “The Icons in the History of the Church”. In 2009, he completed his doctoral studies dissertation with the topic “Dogmatic-theological doctrine of hesychasm in the works of St John Climacus , St Symeon the New Theologian, and Gregory Palamas”.
References
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