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He was born Risto Radović, son of Ćiro and Mileva Radović, on Christmas Day, January 7, 1938, in Bare Radović in Donja Morača, and passed away on October 30 after receiving the Holy Sacrament of Communion.
He graduated from Saint Sava Theological Seminary in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade in 1962. In addition to theological sciences, he studied classical philology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
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He continued his postgraduate studies in Bern and Rome. From there he moved to Athens, where during his seven-year stay, in addition to his daily parish service, he received his doctorate and defended his thesis, written in Greek, on Saint Gregory Palamas, with the highest grade.
Then, he spent a year on the Holy Mountain, and then he was invited to teach at the Russian Orthodox Institute “St. Sergius” in Paris from 1974 to 1976, where, in addition to the other five languages he was fluent in, he also improved his French.
He taught at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Belgrade from 1980 to 2005, when he retired due to many obligations.
Metropolitan Amfilohije was second in rank among the bishops in the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church, just after the Serbian patriarch. In February 2012, he received an honorary doctorate from the Institut Saint Sergius in Paris.
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