Stefan; born 1 May 1955) is the fifth Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, metropolitan of Skopje, primate and spiritual leader of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.

[1] Archbishop Stefan, whose secular name is Stojan Veljanovski (Стојан Вељановски),[2] was born on 1 May 1955, in the village of Dobruševo, in FPR Yugoslavia, today in North Macedonia.

After returning from Italy, he became a professor at Skopje's St. Clement of Ohrid Theological Faculty, teaching the subjects Holy Scripture of the Old Testament and Patrology.

"[8] For him, gay marriage "is not only a violation of the holy will of God but ... an introduction and a prerequisite for the dissolution of the family as the basic cell of every civilization and society.

[10][11] In 2010, along with the heads of other religious communities, he proposed changing the Macedonian constitution to define marriage strictly as a union between a man and a woman and to prevent same-sex couples and single parents from adopting children.