title: Joseph of Kumanovo and Osogovo
text: # Joseph of Kumanovo and Osogovo
  
  Dr. Joseph Pејоvsky (Macedonian: Јосиф Пејовски) is the first and current Metropolitan bishop of the Diocese of Kumanovo and Osogovo of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
  
  ## 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”.
  
  