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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>On 21 July 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, completed his working visit to Montenegro by meeting with the Prime Minister Igor Luk\u0161i\u0107 at the House of Montenegro Government.<\/p>\nMetropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and Primorje, Ambassador A. Nesterenko of Russia to Montenegro, and members of the delegation who accompanies Metropolitan Hilarion, attended the meeting.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion conveyed best wishes and greetings of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Prime Minister Luk\u0161i\u0107 with his appointment head of the government and noted that first steps in the forming of a new state are a constructive period and said: \u201cYou are laying the foundations of your state, and it is very important to lay proper emphasis. Your state adheres to the principle of separation of the church from the state. You have the multi-ethnical population, but the majority belongs to the Orthodox Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Luk\u0161i\u0107 said that St. Peter of Cetinje was the church and state head of Montenegro three hundred years ago. He initiated the establishment of political relations with Russia. This fact testifies to the close relations between the ecclesiastical and secular power in Montenegro. Today the Church is separated from the state, but plays an important part in society.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion presented President Luk\u0161i\u0107 with a folding icon and his book<\/p>\n
\u2018The Mystery of Faith\u201d in the Serbian language.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, the DECR chairman visited the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Montenegro and gave a press conference at PR press centre.<\/p>\n
That same day Metropolitan Hilarion left for Moscow. He was seen off by Metropolitan Amfilohije and Ambassador A. Nesterenko.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 21 July 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, completed his working visit to Montenegro by meeting with the Prime Minister Igor Luk\u0161i\u0107 at the House of Montenegro Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}