Nathanael of Ohrid

Nathanael was born as Nesho (Nedyalko) Stoianov (Stankov) Boykikev in the village of Kučevište, near Skopje, then the Ottoman Empire.

Then he continued his education in Prilep, where along with teacher George Samurkashev translate into Bulgarian language the treatise "The Ceremonies of Jews and their evil", published in 1839 by Theodosius of Sinai.

Nathanael published the book "A friendly letter by Bulgarian to Greek" in 1853 (Prague, Church Slavonic language).

In 1863 along with Ivan Seliminski arhimandrit Nathanael was a Bulgarian delegate in Moravia in the celebration of 1000 years of work of Saints Cyril and Methodius.

Nathanael published in 1865 "Slav-Bulgarian primer" (Bucharest) and "Incident in Skopje Eparchy" (Brăila), which describes anti-Greek clerical and cultural movement of the Bulgarians in northern Macedonia.