On December 10th 2017, on the twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost, on the feast-day of Great-martyr James the Persian, His Eminence Metropolitan of Kumanovo and Osogovo k. Dr. Joseph celebrated Holy Hierarchical Liturgy of St John the Chrysostom in the church of St John the Forerunner in Kratovo.
The priest Alexander Zashov was elevated to a dignity of protopresbyter. The faithful communed of Christ’s Holy Mysteries.