Michael ( mk, Архиепископ Охридски и Македонски г.г. Михаил, translit=Arhiepiskop Ohridski i Makedonski g.g. Mihail) was the fourth
Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia and once
primate
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of the
Macedonian Orthodox Church
The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid (MOC-AO; mk, Македонска православна црква – Охридска архиепископија), or simply the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) or the Archdiocese o ...
.
Archbishop Michael was born in Novo Selo,
Ottoman Empire
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(present-day
North Macedonia
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) in 1912. He had been a longstanding professor and dean at the theological faculty of the
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in
Skopje
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before being elected as the leader of the Macedonian Orthodox Church on December 4, 1993.
Archbishop Michael died on July 6, 1999, and is remembered for his great
oratory.
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1912 births
1999 deaths
People from Štip Municipality
Archbishops of the Macedonian Orthodox Church
20th-century Eastern Orthodox archbishops
Eastern Orthodox Christians from North Macedonia
Academic staff of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
20th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Members of the Macedonian Orthodox Church