Father MSc Georgij Gligorov was born on August 26, 1983 in Royal Oak, Michigan (USA), in a family of an Orthodox priest, as a third child to his parents Archpriest Stojan and presbytera (popadiya) Ruzica. The primary school attends in Stip, R. Macedonia. With the blessing of then Metropolitan of Bregalnica, His Eminence Stefan, he enrolled as a regular student in the Macedonian Orthodox Seminary "St. Clement of Ohrid" – Dracevo, Skopje (1998-2003). Due to the great success, with the blessing and the decision of the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric goes for undergraduate studies at the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy, located in the Trinity monastery (Troice-Sergieva Lavra) in Sergiev Posad near Moscow, where he received a degree of graduate theologian of the Department of Biblical Studies (2007). After returning he was appointed as a full-time professor (2008-2010) at the Macedonian Orthodox seminary for the following subjects: English, Russian and Greek. In December 2008 by the Academic Council of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology "St. Clement of Ohrid" in Skopje he was elected Junior Teaching Assistant on the subjects of the Old Testament. On June 3, 2011 successfully defended his academic work "The Old Testament festivals in historical context and their typological meaning" at the Department of Bible Studies at the Moscow Theological Academy, thus gaining the scientific degree of candidate of theology (doctor of theology of level I, according to European qualification). In December 2011 he was elected Senior Teaching Assistant at the Orthodox Theological Faculty in the subjects Introduction to the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament, Biblical history and archeology and Hebrew language. He is an author of several articles, and many translations of academic and popular articles in the field of Orthodox theology. In October 2011 he marries Ana Gligorova (née: Rogozharska). In June 2013 his daughter Sofija was born, and in February 2018 his second daughter Hana. On September 13, 2015 he was ordained a deacon by His Beatitude Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia Stefan, and on September 27, 2015, on the feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, in the cathedral "St. Clement of Ohrid" – Skopje, also by the hand of Archbishop Stefan was ordained into the priesthood. On November 4, 2015 by the decision of the Metropolitan of American-Canadian Diocese Metodij, he was appointed as a Parish Priest at St. Peter and Paul Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Crown Point, Indiana
