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Regarding the arms and flags of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the flag is red with the arms but
only the outlines in yellow can be found at
http://heraldika.org.mk. Macedonian Eparchies (and Bishops) do not use
separate arms or flags, apart from the one of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
Only Bishop Jovan during his office as a head of the Povardarie Eparchy used the
arms (or flag black outlined double-headed eagle on yellow) in question as the
arms of the eparchy and used a somehow modified arms of MOC as his arms of
office.
After the conflict regarding the status of the MOC and its recognition by other
orthodox churches (Bishop Jovan took the position that the MOC should ask for
its autocephalous status from the "mother" church, the Serbian OC) he was
dismissed from this office and from the MOC as a whole. Since he did not
recognize the authority of MOC for his dismissal, he still claims to hold the
same office, Bishop of Povardarie Eparchy, plus he got the title from SOC as the
head of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (which neither the MOC nor the Republic
of Macedonia recognize in any way). Thus this arms although in use, was never
officially recognized as the arms (flag) of the Povardarie Eparchy of the MOC.
It was posted on my site during its usage as the arms of Povardarie Eparchy of
the MOC. It has been removed from the site once it ceased to be the arms of the
Povardarie Eparchy. But I guess some of the older backup pages that cannot be
reached from the home page, could be reached directly.
Finally, it is used now as the arms of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, a small
group of people who consider them self under the jurisdiction of the Serbian
Orthodox Church. They never bothered to have any connections to the actual
Povardarie Eparchy, as their activities are outside the territory of the Eparchy
in question. Zoran Vraniskovski AKA Bishop John at the moment is serving his
sentence for financial fraud during his office as a Bishop of Povardarie
Eparchy.
Jovan Jonovski, 13 February 2006