Monsignor Dr. Joakim Herbut (

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: Јоаким Хербут) 14 February 1928 – 15 April 2005) was a Macedonian Catholic prelate. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Skopje-Prizren from 1969 to 2005 and exarch of the

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Apostolic Exarch of Macedonia from 2001 to 2005. Born in the village of

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in present-day

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, autonomous province of

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on 14 February 1928 in the Rusyn family. He was

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on 6 July 1952 by Bishop

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for the

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. Fr. Herbut was the personal assistant in Skopje from 1954 to 1957 and in Križevci from 1957 to 1959. and as bishop of Skopje-Prizren diocese was placed on October 2, 1969 by Pope

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and the inauguration took place on December 21, 1969. Also from 3 July 1972 he served as apostolic visitator for the Byzantine Rite faithful in Yugoslav Macedonia and later he was appointed the head of the renewed Apostolic Exarch of Macedonia on January 11, 2001. Monsignor Joakim Herbut died in Skopje on April 15, 2005.

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