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	Religion in Montenegro, a Sovereign and Independent State
		While the Serbian church fell under domination of the Ottoman empire and for five hundred years was controlled by the Turkish patriarchy of Constantinople, the Montenegrin church was independent, recognized by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church as well as by the Ecumenical Patriarchal (the Eastern Pope of Constantinople).
		In 1904 during the reign of the Montenegrin king Nikola I (1841-1921), the Montenegrin Orthodox Church was granted its Charter of the Holy Synod of the Principality of Montenegro (Ustav Svetog Sinoda).
		After the time of King Alexander's decree all the Montenegrin monasteries, which guard the rich cultural heritage of the Montenegrin nation and state, have been in the possession of the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose assimilatory projects have become increasingly aggressive since the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
	www.montenegro.org /religion.html (1034 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
		The Montenegrin Orthodox Church is registered with the Government of Montenegro Ministry of Interior in Cetinje, the former capital, as an NGO.
		Church of Christ leaders noted that acts of vandalism often took place soon after television programs reported on the work of "sects," in which minority Protestant faiths often are grouped together with satanic cults.
		In early 2002, a Catholic Church in the Vojvodina town of Sremska Mitrovica was pelted with stones and spray painted with nationalist slogans and swastikas.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13991.htm (3822 words)

	Montenegrin Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MOC is led by the Archbishop of Cetinje and Montenegrin Metropolitan Mihailo Miraš Dedeić.
		In the Church of St. Paraskeva in Sophia, on March 15, 1998, he was ordained to Episcope by a self-declared 'Bulgarian Patriarch' (schismatic bishop) Pimen and seven Metropolitans and Episcopes of a schismatic synod of the 'Bulgarian Orthodox Church'[2].
		Mihailo is a defrocked priest of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montenegrin_Orthodox_Church (575 words)

	BCPS - St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Tampa and St. Petersburg Florida, East Orthodox Christianity
		In the Catholic Church of the Latin Rite, this had been accidently achieved when Latin, in which the liturgy was celebrated, ceased to be understood by the people; in the Orthodox churches the altar area was surrounded by pillars with curtains in between.
		The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.
		An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia) dating from the 1920s and due to the subjection of the latter to the hostile soviet regime.
	www.bluecoast.org /nonprofit/eastorthodoxy.html (9517 words)

	Montenegrin Church Ruffles Feathers in Vojvodina
		Zeljko “Bobo” Tanovic, a painter, relishes his traditional Montenegrin brandy in a café in the centre of Lovcenac, a village in Serbia’s northern Vojvodina province.
		Representatives of the Serbian church in Belgrade declined to comment, saying the issue should be referred to the Backa Eparchy, where the parish of Lovcenac is located.
		Archbishop Mihailo, the head of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, said the case showed that Serbia’s government is “in collusion with the Serbian church, despite laws that say there is no state religion.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2006/Lovcenac.html (1096 words)

	Bloodshed Threatening
		Metropolitan Amfilohije of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) warns that the conflict between the Serbian and Montenegrin Church might cause bloodshed in Montenegro in January.
		The Montenegrin Church warned in one of its press releases that Metropolitan Amfilohije was "a militant representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro which denies the existence of the Montenegrin people, nation, culture, language, church and all things Montenegrin".
		The return of the Wallachian Church, that is of a manifold symbolic meaning, would surely prompt many adherents to join the Montenegrin Church and villages throughout Montenegro to hand over even faster the temples that are still their indisputable property.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2000/Bloodshed.html (1409 words)

	Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
		In Montenegro tensions between the unofficial (because it is not recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul) Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church continued and were politicized by opposing political factions, despite the Montenegrin Government's attempts to moderate the situation.
		On September 1, 2000, the Orthodox church in Musnikovo, near Prizren, was damaged and desecrated.
		On February 7, 2001, unknown assailants planted a bomb in an Orthodox church in the village of Gornji Livoc, destroying it.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5700.htm (3325 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Kosovo: Prospects For Peace - Religion
		The church was independent from 1766 until 1920, when it was assimilated into the Serbian Orthodox Church under the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (soon to become Yugoslavia).
		"The politics of the Serbian Orthodox Church is no different than the aggressive and arrogant politics of the Serbian state that we have seen in the past few years," said the leader of the Montenegrin church, Metropolitan Mihailo, defending his church's decision to secede from the Serbian patriarchate.
		The re-establishment of the Montenegrin church is the latest move by Montenegro to distance itself from Yugoslavia's government.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/kosovo/notebook/0127 (850 words)

	World Watch - Catholic World Report - June 2001
		In Yugoslavia, Church leaders are actively pursuing opportunities to build stronger relationships with their Muslim neighbors (who represent 20 percent of the population) and especially with the Serbian Orthodox Church, which claims the allegiance of almost two-thirds of the population.
		Orthodox leaders have managed to establish a close form of collaboration with the government, reminiscent of the role of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow.
		The hierarchy of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church was reconstituted in 1993.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2001-06/yugoslavi.html (1781 words)

	2000 Annual Report for International Religious Freedom: Serbia-Montenegro
		In Montenegro tensions between the unofficial Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church worsened and were politicized by opposing political factions, despite the Montenegrin Government's attempts to moderate the situation.
		The re-established Montenegrin Orthodox Church is registered with the Government of Montenegro Ministry of Interior in Cetinje, the former capital, as a nongovernmental organization (NGO).
		The rift between the churches was highlighted again in January 2000 when a Serbian Orthodox priest delayed the traditional Christmas celebration by calling on the audience to leave the hall because Montenegrin Orthodox Metropolitan Mihailo was present.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/irf2000/serbiam.html (2342 words)

	Ecclesia News Service
		President persistently interferes in the affairs of the Orthodox Church and breaks the rules Montenegrin Constitution regarding the Church matters in the process even though he is not a baptized orthodox Christian.
		Montenegrin Metropolitanate, needless to say, never formally asked anyone for and therefore never received a formal document -‘tomos’ which is required when a particular Church wants to become autocephalous.
		On 16th December 1918, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Montenegrin Metropolitanate, the Orthodox Church in Montenegro was united with the Orthodox Church in Serbia.
	www.ecclesia.gr /English/EnNews/2001/jan16_mont.html (1338 words)

	Montenegrin P.E.N. Center Resolution on Endangerment of Culture
		The Montenegrin leadership, who gained power on the wings of Great Serbianism at the very beginning of the Yugoslav crisis, being burdened with inexperience and a political debt to their Serbian mentors, accepted a subordinate role of assisting and serving someone else's interests and nebulous ambitions.
		Its particular activity is to discredit the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, which has all historical, canonical and moral rights to exist and exercise its influence.
		Although the Montenegrins have been indoctrinated (by Serbia) with a dangerous belief in a messianic role and irrational ideas of life and success, directed towards the pursuit of a Great Serbian utopia, they could, rather quickly, be oriented toward civilized norms of behavior and work and find a way to the broad vistas of progress.
	www.montenegro.org /endanger.html (1451 words)

	Religious - Christian - The Balkan Peninsula and Adjacent Areas
		Churches and Monasteries in the Region of Ohrid.
		Kayseri: The church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Kilisesi).
		The Byzantine Monuments - The Church of Panagia of Blachernae.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_balkan.html (3627 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		The head of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, Archbishop Mihailo (Dedeic) of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro, condemned Radulovic's comments, describing them as "arrogant behaviour on the part of Serbia" which, he claimed, is not prepared to grant Montenegrins the right to practice their faith in what he regards as their national Church.
		News of the agreement with the Montenegrins – and of the purchase by the Association of Macedonians of Vojvodina of a plot of land in Novi Sad to build a Macedonian Orthodox church - provoked an immediate reaction from minister Radulovic.
		They are simply trying to invade the territory of the Serbian Orthodox Church." He argues that the state has to accept Orthodox canon law and that therefore the Serbian Orthodox diocese has to approve the building of churches of any Orthodox jurisdiction, on top of the planning permission from local authorities required in urban areas.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=648 (1418 words)

	President of the Republic of Montenegro
		President Vujanovic, answering the listeners’ questions, said that in Constitution, the church should not be denoted neither nationally nor universally and bespoke that priests should not deal with politics, and that state has an obligation to respect canon constitution.
		I think it represents the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and Littoral, which was denominated canonically in that way, but the impression was being made during a long period of time that it was the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro”, said the President.
		Montenegrin President pointed out that the priests should not deal with politics and the state is obliged to pay respect to the canonic structure.
	www.predsjednik.cg.yu /eng/?akcija=vijest&id=1341 (618 words)

	Montenet - Religion in Montenegro: Restoration of the Montengrin Orthodox Church
		Re-establishing the MOC would weaken the SOC and undermine traditional unity between Montenegrins and Serbs and therefore be at the expense of both'.
		They also insisted on their historical right to the property confiscated by the SOC (650 churches and monasteries), as well as to be able to choose themselves a Metropolitan of their own ethnicity, and to be able to baptize their children as Montenegrins of the Christian Orthodox faith.
		It was noted that, regrettably, since the abolishment of the MOC (1920), Montenegrins could not exercise these rights in the Serbian Orthodox Church, because the SOC did not recognize the Montenegrin nation and consequently could not issue the baptismal certificate to those who wanted to be baptized as Montenegrins.
	www.montenet.org /religion/moc_rest.htm (938 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2003, Serbia and Montenegro, December 19, 2003
		Montenegrin officials claim the transfer was an illegal attempt to prevent the Republican Government from obtaining this property when the federal state was dissolved and replaced by the state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
		According to church sources, the Adventist Church in Zrenjanin had been the scene of a number of attacks in 2002, but the vandals were never apprehended.
		Nevertheless, the Montenegrin Orthodox Church remains schismatic in the eyes of official Orthodoxy, and tensions between the two churches continued.
	belgrade.usembassy.gov /policy/reports/031219a.html (8619 words)

	Metropolitanate of Montenegro and Littoral: Public Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		OF THE ORTHODOX METROPOLITANATE OF MONTENEGRO AND THE LITTORAL
		Despite the grave concern we expressed in our previous statements and reports regarding the aggressive behaviour of the self-proclaimed montenegrin orthodox church, current Montenegrin regime continues to tolerate brutal attacks on clergy, 'football fan style' takeovers of churches and theft of property belonging to the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.
		In case, however, that the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral still does not receive comprehensive and meaningful legal protection from the authorities this in turn can only mean that the regime with its state institutions takes full responsibility for all the consequences that are likely to follow.
	www.mitropolija.cg.yu /aktuelno/saopstenja/e001202.html (159 words)

	Interfax-Religion
		In this connection, the head of the Montenegro diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church informed the journalists that the organization that claims to be Montenegrin Orthodox Church has only three or four self-consecrated priests, and it is headed by so-called ‘Metropolitan’ Miras Dedeic, who previously was a married priest in Italy.
		As for the Montenegrin Church’s property, it amounts only to one or two churches in Montenegro, which were taken away from the canonical Church some time ago and have not been returned as yet.
		The ‘Montenegrin Orthodox Church’ itself was founded in 1993 by Serbian-born Archimandrite Antonij Abramovic, who had been a cleric of the Orthodox Church in America, Metropolitan Amfilohije said.
	www.interfax-religion.com /?act=news&div=1546. (469 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Grieboski, the head of the delegation of U.S. religious leaders, emphasized after hearing the Patriarch’s comments that attacks on the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox people in Kosovo and Metohija are attacks on the entire Christian world and that the hearts of Christians in the United States bleed for the suffering of the Serbs.
		Churches must be neat and tidy, bells must ring regularly and appropriate brochures for tourists interested in the Orthodox heritage of Greece must be readily available to all, he emphasized.
		The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija wishes to express its utmost concern and protest against the intensified pressure by Albanian extremists on the remaining Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, especially returnees to the province.
	www.spc.org.yu /Vesti-2004/08/10-8-04-e.html (1933 words)

	INSTEAD OF FALSIFYING HISTORICAL FACTS AND SUPPORTING THE CHURCH DELINQUENT MR. DJUKANOVIC SHOULD LOOK FOR SELF RESPECT ...
		Djukanovic’s behaviour, ominously reminds us of Stalin, Broz, Causesku, Tudjman, Milosevic and other autocrats of the communist era who, through the power of their political authority, tried to direct and control the development of the complete scientific field in their countries although their education and their knowledge were minimal and more than questionable.
		President persistently interferes in the affairs of the Orthodox Church and breaks the rules Montenegrin Constitution regarding the Church matters in the process even though he is not a baptised orthodox Christian.
		December 1918, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Montenegrin Metropolitanate, the Orthodox Church in Montenegro was united with the Orthodox Church in Serbia.
	www.mitropolija.cg.yu /aktuelno/saopstenja/e010101.html (1415 words)

	REPORT ON THE VISIT TO SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO by Srdja Trifkovic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We are fully satisfied that the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral is the only legal, historical and canonical “Orthodox Church” in Montenegro, with a vibrant spiritual life, and a growing body of clergy and faithful whose undivided loyalty is beyond doubt.
		Because the Metropolitanate is an integral part of the Serbian Orthodox Church, it is at the receiving end of persecution orchestrated for purely political purposes by the advocates of full Montenegrin independence.
		Djukanovic’s perceived abandonment of his Orthodox supporters is all the more unwise in that it divides the Montenegrin people at a critical time in their struggle for a democratic change that would be free from violence.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic/NewsST080400.htm (2377 words)

	The Njegos Network - Studies
		It is seldom acknowledged in the West that until the 20th century "Montenegrin" was a geographic designation for a distinct segment of the Serb nation.
		The Montenegrins are a conservative people and, like all the Serbs of the Balkans, look back to the days of the great Serbian Empire when the Slavs held most of the Peninsula.
		Because the Metropolitanate of Montenegro is an integral part of the Serbian Orthodox Church, it is now at the receiving end of a persecution orchestrated for purely political purposes by the Djukanovic "pro-Western" government in its tug of war with the government in Belgrade.
	www.njegos.net /en/studies/tnnstudies.html (1387 words)

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