Joseph of Kumanovo and Osogovo

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| province = Kumanovo, Kriva Palanka, Kratovo

| metropolis = Kumanovo

| diocese = Kumanovo and Osogovo

| see = Skopje

| elected = September 17, 2013

| enthroned = October 10, 2013

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| birth_date = 1977

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| religion = 10px Eastern Orthodoxy

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| alma_mater = Skopje University

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Dr. Joseph Pејоvsky ({{langx|mk|Јосиф Пејовски}}) is the first and current Metropolitan bishop of the Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.{{cite web|url=http://josif.mk/?page_id=17&lang=mk|title=Митрополит|work=josif.mk|date=|access-date=2014-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808055114/http://josif.mk/?page_id=17&lang=mk|archive-date=2014-08-08|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://koe.mk/en/mitropolit/|title=Metropolitan|work=koe.mk|date=}}

Early life

Family

Schooling

Metropolitan Josif in 1995 enrolled at the Faculty of Theology “St Clement of Ohrid” in Skopje, where in 2000 earned a bachelor's degree with thesis topic “The Icons in the History of the Church”. In 2009, he completed his doctoral studies dissertation with the topic “Dogmatic-theological doctrine of hesychasm in the works of St John Climacus, St Symeon the New Theologian, and Gregory Palamas”.