| Joseph | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | M.D. |
| Metropolitan of Kumanovo and Osogovo | |
| Church: | Macedonian |
| Province: | Kumanovo, Kriva Palanka, Kratovo |
| Metropolis: | Kumanovo |
| Diocese: | Kumanovo and Osogovo |
| See: | Skopje |
| Elected: | September 17, 2013 |
| Enthroned: | October 10, 2013 |
| Predecessor: | none (Kiril as Metropolitan of Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo) |
| Successor: | incumbent |
| Birth Date: | 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Prilep Yugoslavia |
| Nationality: | Macedonian |
| Religion: | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Residence: | Kumanovo |
| Occupation: | Metropolitan of MOC-OA |
| Alma Mater: | Skopje University |
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.[1] [2]
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”.