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==MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH VIEWPOINTHistory==Formerly known as [[w:Vardar Banovina|Vardarska Banovina]] (Province of the river Vardar), in March 1945, the People's Republic of Macedonia was created, as one of republics of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, governed by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In Skopje, a Resolution to create the Macedonian Orthodox Church was submitted to the Serbian patriarchate which had since 1919 exercised sole jurisdiction in the area. This resolution was rejected. During World War II there was also an initiative to create an Armenian-Macedonian Church in the territory of occupied Greece, but this plan was supported only by few ethnic Armenians and Aegean Macedonians in the zone of Kastoria. After the war another resolution, submitted in 1958, proposing the Ohrid Archdiocese of St. [[Clement of Ochrid|Clement]] as a Macedonian Orthodox Church, was accepted ([[June 17]], 1959) under strong pressure from the Communist authorities. Dositej Stojković, auxiliary bishop of the Serbian patriarch, left Belgrade and was proclaimed the first Metropolitan of Skopje. In order to prevent schism, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church granted autonomy to three Dioceses in Macedonia. A Macedonian was consecrated bishop. But two of them soon consecrated new bishops who were without the proper qualifications. Soon Macedonians started to organize churches in diaspora without approval of the Patriarch and bishops who were responsible for the dioceses in diaspora. During the so-called Third Clergy and Laity Assembly on [[July 19]], 1967, in Ohrid, the Macedonian Orthodox Church was proclaimed as autocephalous with strong public support.
==OTHER ORTHODOX CHURCHES VIEWPOINTSExternal links== ==Relations with other *[http://www.mpc.org.mk Macedonian Orthodox Churches==Church], official site Some mainstream *[http://www.svpetaripavle.org Macedonian Orthodox jurisdictions have isolated MOC Cathedral Sts Peter and completely cut off all relations with itPaul-Crown Point, IN, USA]*[http://www. Some mainstream Orthodox metropolitans this century, especially stclementofohrid.com/ St. Clement of Ohrid Cathedral in the region Toronto]*[http://www.macedonianchurch.org/HistoryofMacedonianOrthodoxChurch.htm History of the New Territories, have incited rioting against Macedonian Orthodox Church from MOC, and earlier successfully demanded the sealing 's point of the borders and other economic sanctions against the FY Republic of Macedoniaview]*[http://www.macedonianchurch. The Serbian org Macedonian Orthodox Church, Cathedral of the mother Church Dormition of MOC, has declared all MOC bishops schismatic and invalid, and has set up a parallel hierarchy within the FY Republic of MacedoniaVirgin Mary ("St. The world's strongest Orthodox ChurchMary") - Greater Columbus, the Church of RussiaOhio, laments this unfortunate escalation of tensionsUSA]*[http://www.poa-info.org/frameset.php?l=en&r=history Failed agreemment between SOC and MOC]