Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia G.G. Stefan (1)

"Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) is the natural continuation of the Archepiscopy of Ohrid which had autocephaly during all of its
existence until it was illegally annulled by the Ottoman sultan in 1767. One year earlier the same sultan annulled the Archepiscopy of Pekj and
much earlier also Archepiscopy of Trnovo". This as "Dnevnik" writes,
was stated by chief of MOC g.g. Stefan in interview for Serbian
newspaper "Politika".
G.g. Stefan stated that in Macedonia in 1959 and later in 1967 no new
church was created, but it is continuation of Archepiscopy of Ohrid,
i.e. renewed church of St. Kliment. According to him, from the three
centers of Balkan - Ohrid, Trnovo and Pekj came three autocephaly
churches - Macedonian Orthodox Church, Bulgarian Orthodox Church and
Serbian Church. "This succession is clear, correct and historically
confirmed because each of these three churches was spiritually
connected to its nation. Macedonian nation was last in procedure for
renewing of its ancient church because this nation was last from
Balkan nations which gained its independence - state, language,
cultural and church independence", stated g.g. Stefan for "Politika".

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