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Monastery "St. John the Baptist - Bigorski"
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  • The British Ambassador, Mrs. Rachel Galloway, visited the Bigorski Monastery

    • 20 November 2020

  • Official Visit of the United States Secretary of State to the Ecumenical Patriarchate

    • 18 November 2020

  • Feast of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer

    • 16 November 2020

  • The Bigorski Monastery Celebrates its 1000th Anniversary

    • 19 October 2020

  • With filial love for the Elder and Abbot of the Bigorski Monastery, the Bishop Parthenius

    • 18 October 2020

  • A thousand years as one day

    • 18 October 2020
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  • The British Ambassador, Mrs. Rachel Galloway, visited the Bigorski Monastery

    • 20 November 2020

  • The Bigorski Monastery Celebrates its 1000th Anniversary

    • 19 October 2020

  • Soon a new documentary film titled “A 1000 years witness of the Light”

    • 8 September 2020

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The monastery was founded in the year of 1020 by the first Archibshop of Ohrid John of Debar.

It is built in the honour of the Forerunner and Baptist of our Lord, Saint John, for whom the Lord Jesus Christ himself said that there is no greater among those born by women.

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