After Dnevne Novine published the data obtained from the lawyer Nikola Belada, one of the founders of the 21. Maj Civic Initiative, which confirm that the dioceses in Montenegro – the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and the Diocese of Budimlje and Niksic, are registered as religious organizations of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which have existed at the territory of our country since 1220, documents have appeared that confirm this. Therefore, criminal charges are announced against the Minister, if illegal solutions are not revoked.
Dnevne Novine has been forwarded the decision signed on 10 June this year by the former Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights Vladimir Leposavic, which literally reads that: “The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church, founded in 1220, with its seat in the Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery (Dolac, Berane), represented by the authorized person, Bishop of Budimlje and Niksic, Metodije (Ljubisa) Ostojic, was entered in the Unified Register of Religious Communities”.
The same decision was issued for the Diocese of Budimlje and Niksic of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is also claimed to have existed since 1220.
