Career
Born in village of Ruski Krstur in Serbia, autonomous province of Vojvodina on 14 February 1928 in Rusyn family. He was appointed pastor of July 6, 1952, and as bishop of Skopje-Prizren diocese was placed on October 2, 1969 by Pope Paul VI and the inauguration took place on December 21, 1969. Later he was appointed the head of the renewed Apostolic Exarch of Macedonia pilgrims from the Eastern Byzantine Rite on January 11, 2001.
Monsignor Joakim Herbut died in Skopje on April 15, 2005.