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TASS announced that the metropolitan died after receiving the sacred secret of communion, due to complications caused by the kovid 19 virus.
– On Friday, October 30, 2020, the eve of the feast of St. Peter Cetinjski, at 8:20 (10:20 Moscow time) in the Clinical Center of Montenegro, after receiving the sacred secret of communion, he passed away His Eminence the Archbishop of Cetinje, Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral and Exarch of the throne of Peja Amfilohije – writes TASS.
RIA Novosti also wrote about his life and faithful pastoral service to the Serbian people, and they were also among the first to convey the condolences of the Russian Patriarch Kirill.
– The Lord Jesus Christ invited the exceptional hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose name in history will be forever associated with the spiritual rebirth of Montenegro after a long era of theomachy, unparalleled tireless fight to save paternal relics and preserve unity of God’s people in the lot of saints Vasilije Ostroški and Peter of Cetinje – wrote Patriarch Kiril – RIA Novosti reports the words of Patriarch Kiril.
He added that the Russian Church will prayerfully remember Metropolitan Amfilohije as a talented theologian and preacher, as well as “a courageous defender of the Holy Church of Christ before the powerful of this age.”
Kurir.rs/Novosti
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