The Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, said on Sunday that the late Bishop of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, Amfilohije, united the Serb people, which was obvious during the liturgies that were organized in Montenegro.
Bishop Amfilohije died due to COVID-19 on Friday and was laid to rest on Sunday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people and mainly Serb dignitaries from the region.
Presidency member Dodik, who is also the leader of the ruling party in Bosnia's Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) entity, was among them.
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“He often said when he came to Republika Srpska that Republika Srpska was baptized, that Serbia was half-baptized, and that Montenegro was still unbaptized,” Dodik said.
He said that he believes Amfilohije saw at the end of his life how Serbs were united in their fight for their churches and monasteries in Montenegro after the government there passed a disputed law on religious property.
According to him, that was obvious at Amfilohije’s funeral, where a huge number of people gathered despite the coronavirus pandemic.
“I can only imagine how many would have come if that was not the case,” concluded Dodik, who attended the funeral of Metropolitan Amfilohije in Podgorica.
