Gjelev, John (Ivan) Neek (Pop Shako) (village Drenovo, Kavadarecho, 8. Xi 1880 – Skopje, 18. 1954) – Priest, Ilinden and participant in the NOB. He was a delegate of the first session of ASNOM and a member of the Presidium of ASNOM (2 ⅷ 1944). After the liberation, he was a priest in the church “St. Dimitrija “in Skopje. The holder is the Order of the first-order “Brotherhood and Unity” (11. 1945) and he was awarded by the Serial Patriarch Alexei with the Golden Breast Cross (14. ⅶ 1945). Lit.: Done Ilievski, the Macedonian Orthodox priesthood in the struggle for national and church freedom, Skopje, 1987; The same, the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, Skopje, 1972. Rat. Gr. Necklace
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Кириличен напис ЃЕЛЕВ, Јован