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“To our Most Reverend: Eternal memory, our bishop, you are the flame of our candle, as long as there are Serbs on earth, your name will not die” GROBARI NIKŠIĆ – says in the obituary that Partizan fans dedicated to his beloved “grandfather”.
The tribute to the Blessed Metropolitan also had a minute’s silence before the start of the Partizan – Macva match, when the nearby church bells were heard.
The metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral, Amfilohije Radović, died this Friday at the Podgorica Clinical Center, where he has been receiving treatment for coronavirus since October 6.
On Friday, October 30, 2020, at 8:20 a.m., at the Clinical Hospital Center of Montenegro, after receiving the Holy Sacrament of Communion, the Most Reverend Archbishop of Cetinje, Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral and Exarch of the Holy Throne de Peja, Mr. Amfilohije, the Metropolitanate de Montenegro y el Litoral announced.
All other details about the funeral will be released to the public soon, it was said.
Previously, the hospital announced that it was “set to invasive ventilation mode.”
Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije (Radović) was born on Christmas Day, January 7, 1938, in Bare Radovića in Donja Morača. His secular name was Risto.
The future metropolitan spent his childhood in a patriarchal family. He finished primary school at Morača Monastery and St. Sava Seminary in Rakovica in Belgrade. He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Theology in 1962. Along with the Faculty of Theology, he studied classical philology at the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
After graduating from university, he continued his postgraduate studies in Bern and Rome, where he received his master’s degree from the Pontifical Oriental Institute (1965). From there he went to the Orthodox Church of Greece, where he remained for seven years and where he received the angelic image and the priestly rank.
After spending a year on the Holy Mountain, he became a professor at the Orthodox Institute of St. Sergius in Paris, and from 1976 he became an assistant professor, then a full professor at the Faculty of Theology of St. John the Theologian in Belgrade. (later the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade), in the Department of Orthodox Pedagogy (Catechesis) with teaching methods.
He was also dean of the faculty for two terms.
He received his honorary doctorate from the Moscow Spiritual Academy in 2003, from the Institute of Theology of the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 2008, and from the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris in 2012, and the Saint Petersburg Spiritual Academy. in 2014.
By decision of the National Committee of Social Awards of the Russian Federation in 2001, he was also awarded the Order of Lomonosov, which was presented to him at a ceremony in the Kremlin in the presence of some 4,000 distinguished guests. He was elected an honorary member of the Slovenian Academy of Literature and Art in 2015.
He spoke Greek, Russian, Italian, German and French. He used Ancient Greek, Latin, and Church Slavonic in his scientific work.
The Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral, Amfilohije, will be buried on Sunday, November 1 in the crypt of the Podgorica Cathedral, and the Holy Liturgy will be led by the Serbian Patriarch Irinej, announced today the Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro . The burial place, it is said, was his wish, and the tomb in which the metropolitan will rest was prepared for his life. Until the Metropolitan’s funeral in all Orthodox churches, the bells will ring at equal intervals, and on Sunday, the day of the funeral, liturgies will be served and a memorial service will be held in all monasteries, when possible.
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