Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid
Jovan VI. Ohrid ( Macedonian Јован Охридски; born February 28, 1966 in Bitola, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia), born Zoran Vraniškovski ( maz. Зоран Вранишковски ) known as Jovan Vraniškovski ( maz. Јован Вранишковски ) is a Macedonian minister, head of the autonomous Orthodox archbishopric of Ohrid.
Life
Zoran was born on 28 February 1966 at the Macedonian Bitola in the family of Argir and Galena Vraniškovski. It attended the local primary school and secondary school mathematics in the city. His military service he derived in Sarajevo. Between 1985 and 1990, Zoran completed an urban studies at the University of Sarajevo. From 1990, he studied theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade. At the same time he worked as a civil engineer in the Eparchy of Bitola. 1995 he completed his theological studies Zoran, however, he enrolled in the same year for a master's degree in theology at the same university one. From 2008 he worked on his doctoral thesis entitled: " The union of the Church and contemporary religious issues."
On February 7, 1998 Zoran was ordained to the Macedonian Orthodox monk, where he completed his worldly name and adopted the spiritual name Jovan. A day later he was ordained a priest on 19 July of the same year as Bishop of Dremwtiza. In the following years he was vicar of the eparchy " Prespa Pleganoja " and directed the restoration of the church of St. Dimitrius in Bitola. 2000 Bishop Jovan of the eparchy " Veles and Povadarski " whereupon he assumed the nickname Veleski ( maz. Велешки, dt of Veles ).
Cleavage of the Macedonian Orthodox Church
2002 Jovan presented his eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In the same year he was appointed to a Church Council of the Serbian Church to the Archbishop of Ohrid. For Metropolitan Jovan in 2003 was excommunicated by the Macedonian church. Jovan followed in 2004 another four monasteries with 30 monks.
The Serbian side, the offer had been made to grant autonomy within the Belgrade Patriarchate of the Macedonian church. This proposal had the Macedonian bishops divided into two camps: Petar of Australia and New Zealand, Timotej of Kičevo, Naum of Strumica and Jovan of Povardarie were in favor; Kiril of Polog and Kumanovo, Agatangel of Bregalnica and Gorazd, Metropolitan of Western Europe, were against it. The Macedonian Church leader, Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid, remained neutral. The Macedonian believers advocate majority autocephaly.
First, the Macedonian government had not interfered in ecclesiastical disputes, with the arrest of Bishop Jovan in Bitola on 11 January 2004 ( on suspicion of violation of the property right of churches and monasteries ) won the canonical conflict almost a state political dimension. He was convicted of embezzling the equivalent of € 250,000 to 2.5 years in prison.
2005 appointed the Serbian Patriarch Pavle Jovan Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje and proclaimed the autonomy of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, Jovan and as chairman of the Holy Synod of Bishops.
On 17 November 2010, Jovan was arrested under an international arrest warrant on the part of Macedonia on the Bulgarian- Serbian border crossing Kalotina and placed under house arrest. In the first instance, the Bulgarian court opted for a delivery. The attorneys at Vraniškovski appealed and the Sofia District Court ruled on January 4, 2011 against the decision of the first instance without the possibility of appeal and lifted the house arrest. This resulted in the Republic of Macedonia to rebellion and the Bulgarian court was alleged to have decided, under political pressure to maintain and United Bulgarian ambitions. In the second process, the lawyers argued Vraniškovskis that the processes in which he was sentenced in Macedonia, were politically motivated. Likewise, two Macedonian clergy were in the courtroom, which testified that Vraniškovski to 2004 never had problems with the law and that the reprisals against him in Macedonia are politically motivated.