Original sentence: After openly declaring his ethnic Macedonian identity in 1991, and having communicated with parishioners in the Macedonian language, he was dismissed from his ecclesiastical post in the diocese of Florina.Archimandrite Tsarknias continues to have trouble in his spiritual duties to the slavic Macedonian minority, a result of longstanding Greek government policy towards minorities.Archimandrite Tsarknias opposed bishop Augustin's attempt to eradicate slavic Macedonian religious customs.Archimandrite Tsarknias served as a personal secretary to the Florina diocese's bishop, Augustine.He assumed the same post in Edessa but was subsequently dismissed there also.He is a citizen of Greece and is a member of the Slavic Macedonian minority in that country
Edited sentence: After openly declaring his ethnic Macedonian identity in 1991, and having communicated with parishioners in the Macedonian language, he was dismissed from his ecclesiastical post in the diocese of Florina/Lerin.Archimandrite Tsarknias continues to have trouble in his spiritual duties to the ethnic-Macedonian minority, a result of longstanding Greek government policy towards minorities.Archimandrite Tsarknias has also been put on trial for myriad reasons since joining the Macedonian Orthodox Church.Archimandrite Tsarknias opposed bishop Augustin's attempt to eradicate Macedonian religious customs, which have been suppressed by the Greek government since the end of the Second Balkan Wars in 1913.Archimandrite Tsarknias served as a personal secretary to the Florina/Lerin diocese's bishop, Augustine.He assumed the same post in Edessa/Voden but was subsequently dismissed there also.He is a citizen of Greece and is a member of the ethnic-Macedonian minority in that country.Several human rights organizations and international observers have attended these trials