Skopje Diocese – Orthodox diocese. In ⅳ c. Skupi was a metropolitan seat, for a long time under the jurisdiction of the Thessaloniki Archbishop. With the Charter of Justinian and (15. 535), an independent Church of Justiniana received (up to 545 years) was established. At the time of Samuil’s kingdom, Diocese was subordinated to the Ohrid Archbishopric. With the fall of Skopje under Byzantium (1002), the diocese came under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate. During 1282 The Skopje Diocese conquered Serbian King Milutin. After the fall of Macedonia under the government of the Ottomans, the diocese came into the composition of the Ohrid Archbishopric. When resending the Pec Patriarchate (1557), the Skopje Diocese $ was joined and remained until its abolition (1766), after which it was subordinated to the Constantinople Patriarchate. At the beginning of ⅹⅹ c. The Skopje and other dioceses of the Vardar part of Macedonia entered the composition of the Serbian Orthodox Church, except during the time of the Bulgarian occupations (1915-1918 and 1941-1944), when it was under the jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. From the renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric (1958, 1967) as the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Skopje Diocese is in its composition, and Skopje is the seat of the Archbishopric. Exhibit. and Litt.: I. CN
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