Original sentence: According to the sources in the Acts, Saint Paul, Christ's disciple, began spreading Christianity in Macedonia and elsewhere on the Balkan Peninsula towards the mid 1st century AD.As a result of the Christianization in the first three centuries, the Christians in Macedonia at the beginning of the 4th century already had an organised Church with an established ecclesiastical hierarchy, whose bishops regularly participated at the ecumenical councils.At that time, as a Roman province Macedonia often changed its borders and its ethnic composition.Cathellian was the first Archbishop of the Archdiocese Justiniana Prima, at the time the third by honour among the local Orthodox Churches, after Rome and Constantinople.During the reign of the emperor Justinian I (527-565), who came from the village of Tauresium in the Skopje region, a new town was built near the emperor's birthplace, named Justiniana Prima after him.He visited this region on two occasions during his journeys through Europe and Asia.He was followed by Timothy and Silas, who remained in Macedonia after his departure.In 1019 the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid was established within the borders of the First Bulgarian Empire under the rule of Samuil of Bulgaria.In the 5th century the Church had several metropolises and dioceses.Several Christian basilicas originate from this period, including the one near the village of Bardovci, in the western outskirts of Skopje.The Macedonian Orthodox Church nowadays claims to be the restored Bulgarian Ohrid Archbishopric, although these claims are not recognized by any other Orthodox Churches.The Metropolitan of Skopje was appointed an autocephalous Archbishop.The metropolises of Thessalonica and Skopje were the most distinguished among them.The other archbishops were: Benenat, Paul, John I, Leon and the last one John IX, who in 680-81 took part at the Trullo Council in Constantinople.The work of the holy Apostle Paul and the holy emperor Justinian I was continued by the holy brothers Methodius and Cyril and their disciples Saints Clement of Ohrid and Naum of Preslav
Edited sentence: In 1019 the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid was established within the former borders of Bulgaria.The Macedonian Orthodox Church claims to be the restored Bulgarian Ohrid Archbishopric, although these claims are not recognized by any other Orthodox Churches