Иоанн Лествичник
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"”.