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The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) tested positive for the virus on October 6 and a few days later he had difficulty breathing and was admitted to a clinic in Podgorica.
The metropolitan of Montenegro and the Coast, Amfilochios, has died at the age of 82 after a three-week battle against the coronavirus.
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) tested positive for the virus on October 6 and a few days later he had difficulty breathing and was admitted to a clinic in Podgorica. The day before yesterday, according to an official announcement, his health began to deteriorate, he developed acute pneumonia and this morning it ended.
Metropolitan Amfilochios was a leading figure in the Serbian Church. He was one of the best educated hierarchs. He studied theology and classical literature in Belgrade and did postgraduate studies in Germany, Italy and Greece. In 1973 he received his doctorate from the Theological School of Athens. He spoke five languages (Greek, French, German, Italian, Russian) and in his writings he used ancient Greek and Latin.
Metropolitan Amfilochios was actively involved in the ecclesiastical problems that arose in Montenegro after the adoption, in December 2019, of the new law on “religious freedoms and legal status of religious communities”. The law provides for the confiscation of property that religious communities cannot prove belonged to before 1918, when Montenegro lost its independence and joined the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian kingdoms. Amfilochios argued that the new law aims to separate temples and monasteries from the Serbian Orthodox Church and cede them to the Schismatic Orthodox Church of Montenegro (CPC). For this reason, he became the leader of the mobilizations with the meeting of thousands of citizens, daily, who reacted to the implementation of this law. The mobilizations, organized by the metropolitan Amfilochios, affected the political situation in Montenegro and in the parliamentary elections held on August 30, the Socialist Party of Milo Djukanovic, after three decades in power, was forced to join the opposition.
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