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In the same manner, illegally and without a court order, the monks of four monasteries, were expelled from their monasteries, i.e. homes, in January 2004, immediately after joining the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.
[[Image:Destroyed temple Monastery Chrysostomos.jpg|left|thumb|400px|The destruction church in the monastery "Saint John Chrysostom"]]
A fifth monastery, in the village Nizepole, was broken into by armed and masked men, who not finding the Archbishop Jovan they were after, harassed and threatened the nuns with machine-guns, cut their hair and set the monastery on fire, in February 2004. The police refused to investigate the case.
The declaratively secular state legalized its identification with a specific religious community – the [[Schism]]atic Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC), through the Parliament’s "Declaration for support of the autocephaly of the MOC" reached on [[January 23]], 2004;
The Church in the "Saint John Chrysostom" monastery was demolished by the state authorities in October 2004.
[[Jovan VI (Vraniskovski) of Ohrid|Archbishop Jovan]] was sentenced to 18 months of prison in June 2005 for "Instigation of ethnic, racial and religious hatred, discord and intolerance". The verdict stated the conviction relied on these three points:
===Reactions of the Orthodox churches===
[[Image:Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Liturgy, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan]]
====Ecumenical Patriarchate====
[[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarch]] [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Bartholomew I]] sent a letter to the Prime Minister of FYROM requesting immediate release of Archbishop Jovan [http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=549&tla=gr][http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=549&tla=en]
