Nikolla2007.04.19 [13:22]
Lazare hvala za prevode i pojasnjenja
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [13:08]
The present Metropolitan of Montenegro Dr. Amfilohije Radovic becomes the head of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro in 1990, at the same time when the processes of deconstructing the old communist system result in the free democratic elections. Hoping that the old times and the old ways have passed the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral quickly started to flourish. The number of priests, monks and nuns as well as the number of the faithful increased rapidly. The same can be said for many monasteries and parish churches that were rebuilt and brought back to their former glory. For example from only 10 active monasteries with about 20 monks and nuns in 1991, Montenegro now has 30 active monasteries with more than 160 monks and nuns living and praying in them. The number of parish priests was also increased from 20 in 1991, to more than 60 today.
However, the blossoming of the resurrected Orthodox Church in Montenegro immediately became a thorn in the side of the old communist aparatchiks now disguised as members of certain political parties and various other non -governmental organisations. These people are trying very hard to legitimise themselves and pose as democrats in the changed circumstances, but their communist anti-church mentality seems still to prevail.
Understanding well, that it is no longer politically profitable to openly position themselves against the real Church, these new "democrats" decide to change tactics. People who for 50 years brutally persecuted the Orthodox Church in Montenegro now decide to form the "church" according to their own image and likeness. Consequently, four disreputable individuals who perfectly fit the role are found:
Miras Dedeic (place and the time of birth uncertain), self proclaimed metropolitan, defrocked and returned to the order of laity by the decision of The Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in April of 1997.
Zivorad Pavlovic, runaway and defrocked priest from the town of Smederevo (Serbia). Wanted for serious charges of theft and sought by the Serbian police.
Milutin Cvijic, born in Teslic ( Bosnia), former priest monk in Ostrog monastery. Defrocked as a priest since he broke his monastic vows and got married.
Jelisej Lalatovic, former monk, defrocked for theft of church property.
These church delinquents are leaders of the so called "Montenegrin orthodox church". Meanwhile, because their "clergy" are without canonical legitimacy in the world of Orthodox Christianity and consequently in the rest of the Christian world at large, our disguised communists return to their "old ways" and illegal methods:
Open extortion of property that legally belongs to The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.
The brutal breaking of the rules of the Montenegrin Constitution, and the laws and regulations stemming from it. Constitution as the republic's main legal act allows the existence of just one Orthodox church in Montenegro[5]5.
The campaign organised by the state media, that identifies the robbers dressed as priests with the real and legally recognised clergy.
Introduction of the new, and until now in the spheres of international law unrecognised principle which through the collection of signatures enables the take-over of property that is legally owned by somebody else (the Church in this case).
The decision of Montenegrin president Mr. Djukanovic to publicly support the destructive pseudo-religious organisation called the "MOC" by sending them Easter greetings this year, through which he, in a well known authoritarian communist manner, put himself against and above the legal arbitration of the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Moscow and All of Russia Alexei II, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Pavle, Archbishop of Greece Christodoulos as well as the other leaders of autocephalous orthodox churches throughout the world. In legal terms his move equals the hypothetical situation in which the president of Italy congratulates Easter to a new and self-proclaimed Pope of Rome, not recognised by anybody, and also unacceptable to all in the Roman Catholic Church.
The question is why the regime in Montenegro, which tries to present itself as the modern democratic state ruled by law and which persistently uses the rhetoric of democracy, at the same time tries to legalise a pseudo-religious organisation by registering it in a local police station and encouraging these people to break the law by barging into legally owned property of the Church and falsely presenting themselves in the public. Through all of the above, the regime is seen as supporting the rule of the media directed chaos, which is used as the stimulus for reaching the atmosphere of total anarchy in which "anything goes".
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [13:07]
During the Second World War and after the communists came to power in 1945. the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral suffered the worst imaginable persecution at the hands of the atheist regime. Communists have killed 105 priests and thousands of patriotically oriented Montenegrin people. Fifteen other priests were killed by the fascist occupiers. Metropolitan of Montenegro Joanikije (Lipovac) was also brutally murdered by the communists in 1945. The new regime exerted unprecedented pressures upon the remaining clergy to abandon their flocks. The property belonging to the Church was forcefully and illegally confiscated, many churches and monasteries turned into police stations, stables for cattle and warehouses. Communists in 1972. seriously damaged the "spiritual veil" of Montenegro, by destroying the church dedicated to St. Petar I Petrovic (St. Petar of Cetinje) and desecrated the tomb of the world famous poet, Metropolitan Petar II Petrovic Njegos who built this church on top of the Lovcen mountain. This barbarous act shows the regime's arrogant disregard for the last will of Petar II Petrovic, ages old Christian traditions of Montenegro and even the laws that communists themselves established after they came to power in 1945. In these circumstances the life of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro was totally side-tracked and marginalized by the communist government. This period can be marked as the time of open and brutal persecution of the Church. Unfortunately all of this seems to have past relatively unnoticed by the main human rights organisations in the world.
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [13:02]
Part one: Zetan Orthodox Metropolitanate
The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral exists continually for 780 years as an integral diocese of The Serbian Orthodox Church. It was founded in 1219. by St. Sava (Nemanjic), who also became the first archbishop of The Serbian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. After the status of an autocephalous orthodox church was granted to the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219 in Nicea by the Ecumenical Patriarch Manuel Sarantenos and confirmed by the Emperor Theodore Laskaris, St. Sava decided to divide the area which was under his ecclesiastical jurisdiction into nine dioceses. One of these was the diocese of Zeta (the southern half of modern Montenegro). The seat of Zetan bishops was at that time in the Monastery of St. Michael the Archangel in Prevlaka (near today's city of Tivat) The first Zetan bishop was to became St. Sava's disciple Ilarion Sisojevic.
Zetan diocese was elevated to the status of Metropolitanate by the decisions of the state-church council of Skoplje in 1346, presided by the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dusan.
The fall of the Serbian medieval state 1389. to the Turks after the battle of Kosovo and the gradual disintegration of its parts in the 15th century together with the Venetian conquest of coastal cities of Kotor, Budva and Pastrovici region in 1420-23., endangered The Zetan Orthodox Metropolitanate. In 1452. Venetians destroy the Orthodox Monastery of St. Michael the Archangel in Prevlaka to ease their plans for forceful conversion of the orthodox Christians from these parts of the coast into Roman Catholic faith. From 1452. the seat of the Metropolitanate moved from: St. Mark's Monastery in Budva, Monastery of the Virgin Mary in the mountains close to the city of Bar, St. Nicholas's Monastery situated on Vranjina (Skadar Lake), St. Nicholas's Monastery in Obod (Rijeka Crnojevica) to Cetinje Monastery built in 1484. When Zeta plains finally fell to the advancing Turks, the grand duke of Zeta Ivan Crnojevic with the part of his people moved to Montenegrin mountains that once were just a part of the medieval Serbian state called Zeta.
The history of Montenegro begins from this point. Ivan Crnojevic bought the printing press in Venice a few years before his death in 1490. His son Djuradj becomes the next grand duke, and in 1493. he, with the help of a priest-monk Makarije, prints the book that is the first one ever to be printed among the south Slavs. That book is the "Oktoih", a Serb-Slavonic translation from the original Greek of a service book that is today still regularly used in the daily cycle of services in the orthodox church. Montenegro in 1499. finally falls to the Turks and that coincides with the disappearance of the Crnojevic family from the historical scene. From then on the name Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro is being used instead of the old name Zetan Orthodox Metropolitanate.
martinovicnl2007.04.19 [12:54]
Yes Aleksandra, God know what will happend next!
martinovicnl2007.04.19 [12:49]
On Wednesday April 18 2007 the representatives of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church - which has announced that it did not wish to cause an "excessive situation", but that it would enter the Serbian Orthodox Cetinje monastery without regard to the reaction of the Serbian Orthodox Church to their caims and requests - attempted to do so. Special police units prevented their forceful entry and that of several hundred supporters of the MOC. There was some pushing and shoving between the police, and the crowd which had intended to force its way into the monastery. Following this, members of the crowd shouted slogans such as "this isn't Serbia", "whose police are you?" and "Risto, Satan"
ol-bi2007.04.19 [12:44]
thanx Nikola, that's sad ..
martinovicnl2007.04.19 [12:33]
The Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MOC) (Serbian/Montenegrin: Crnogorska pravoslavna crkva, CPC) is an uncannonical church that registered as a non-governmental organization at the Montenegrin Ministry of the Interior in 1997.
It claims to be the sole legitimate Eastern Orthodox Church in Montenegro, but it is unrecognized internationally by mainstream Orthodox theological circles. In addition to not being recognized by the official Orthodox Christian representatives (Ecumenical Patriarch), MOC's leader is anathemized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and banished from the Orthodoxy. Also in Montenegro itself, the presence of the Serb Orthodox Church is prevailing.
The Church claims support from the also uncannonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church[verification needed], the Bulgarian Alternative Synod (founded by patriarch Pimen)[4], and the Orthodox Church in Italy.[5] However, in official Orthodox theological circles (such as the Russian Orthodox Church or the Ecumenical Patriarchate), MOC is seen as a schizmatic group and a political fabrication (similar to the churches that support it).
martinovicnl2007.04.19 [12:19]
Police protect Monastery in Cetinje and property of Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro from attack of so called “Montenegro orthodox church” Cetinje 18.04.07.
Nikolla2007.04.19 [11:34]
ЛЕКОВИЋУ МАЛО СМО ТАНКИ СА ЕНГЛЕСКИМ
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [11:29]
Никола и брћао из Црне Горе дајте ово и на Енглеском и поставите неки линк или текст који детаљније објашњава проблематику да наша браћа и сестре из других земаља могу да разумеју о чему се овде ради.
Danijela2007.04.19 [11:28]
Христос Васкрсе!
Јел неко од браће и сестара био на лицу места?
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [11:26]
поздрав браћо мила нека нам је свима Бог упомоћ!
Lekovicl2007.04.19 [11:25]
Слава Богу па власти Црној гори још имају толико здравог разума да спрече сумануте да отимају Храмове и Светиње!
Radza2007.04.19 [11:25]
Bravo Nikola,juce je bilo gusto.....
