With the decision not to include the Orthodox Church in Montenegro in the Fundamental Agreement, the Belgrade Patriarchate has violated and changed the decision of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) of May 2006, backed by Serbian Patriarch Pavle and Metropolitan Amfilohije, shows the document published by Pobjeda. With that decision, the future metropolitan of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral (MCP) of SPC will be questioned the title of Archbishop of Cetinje, which the late metropolitan Amfilohije insisted on.
This fact was pointed to by President Milo Đukanović, who asks for a new attitude of the state towards this issue.
“In that document, the Orthodox Church in Montenegro and the Archbishop of Cetinje are mentioned in several places. If the SPC has reached a new position, we should know what the attitude of the state is. I am still convinced that it is good to have the agreement because it also obliges the irresponsible”, President Đukanović points out.
Serbian Patriarch Porfirije said that an agreement had been reached with Montenegrin PM Zdravko Krivokapić on signing the Fundamental Agreement between the state of Montenegro and the SPC.
