Metropolitan Amfilohije has long been known as a leading bishop tending to easily rewrite historical facts, assume and humiliate the Montenegrin history, the Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, stated today.
“For that reason, he’s now tackling the economy as well. Who could have expected him to mourn over communism and socialist enterprises, just to be able to compromise our state? As if the transition processes took place only in Montenegro”, the DPS noted.
But what’s interesting for them the most was Metropolitan Amfilohije’s yesterday’s speech in the monastery ‘Ćelija Piperska’ concerning the Podgorica Assembly.
“He never misses the opportunity to mention the sacrifice of Metropolitan Joanikije, and to increase the number of priests who died with him at the end of World War II, not because they were priests, but because they were collaborators, who retreated together with other Chetniks, trying to find salvation on the territory of Hitler’s Third Reich”.
According to them, the Podgorica Assembly, which has been very important to Metropolitan Amfilohije, never mentioned St Vasilije [St Basil] or St Petar Cetinjski.
“The sacrilege he has been speaking of and the humiliation of these Montenegrin saints were committed by Serbian officers and supporters of unconditional unification, in Nikšić on Dec 1918. They buried three coffins. The names of St Petar and St Vasilije were written on the two of them, and there was a Montenegrin crown on the third. Instead of the Orthodox custom of pouring wine and oil over graves, Serbian officers urinated on them. And those are the consequences of his famous Podgorica Assembly.”
