Skopje and Belgrade are struggling to prevent a religious dispute from spilling over into the public and political arena.
Macedonia: religious dispute escalates
Macedonia: latest developments in Orthodox controversy
A sacked bishop is threatening to reveal the names of colleagues he says were prepared to agree to a controversial plan for the Serbian Orthodox Church to subsume its Macedonian counterpart. IWPR – 24 July 2002 – Bishop Jovan of Veles and Povardarje was denounced as a “traitor” earlier this month and stripped of his titles […]
Zoran Bojarovski is an editor with Forum Magazine in Skopje.
This article was first published on 24 July 2002 (BCR No 352) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus as well as other topics can be accessed on its website:
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Macedonia: Orthodox Church conflict continues
The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church stripped Metropolitan Jovan of the Veles-Vardar region of his church functions and ordered him to retire to a monastery, RFE/RL’s South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported from Skopje on 6 July. RFE/RL – 8 July 2002 – Jovan, who recently reached an agreement recognizing the authority of […]
Macedonia: Church deal bishops accused of treason
A deal between the Serbian and Macedonian churches to resolve a decades-long dispute over the latter’s status has divided public opinion in Macedonia and triggered accusations of treason. IWPR – 7 June 2002 – The row erupted after the two bodies signed an agreement on May 17, 2002, which abolished the Macedonian church’s independent autocephalous status […]
Zoran Bojarovski is an editor with Forum Magazine in Skopje.
This article was first published on 7 June 2002 (BCR No 341) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus as well as other topics can be accessed on its website:
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Macedonia: bishop accused of treason after accepting the authority of the Serbian Orthodox Church
A Macedonian bishop has been accused of treason after deciding to accept the authority of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch over that of Macedonia’s own Orthodox church. Background: click here for an earlier report (June 2002). Update: Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on 8 July 2002: “Bishop Ioannis of Veles, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), […]
Zoran Bojarovski is an editor with Forum Magazine in Skopje.
This article was first published on 3 July 2002 (BCR No 347) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus as well as other topics can be accessed on its website:
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IWPR supports recovery and development in crisis zones by providing professional training, financial assistance and an international platform to independent media, human rights activists and other local democratic voices. IWPR’s primary beneficiaries are local journalists who participate in its reporting, research and training programmes.