Aleksa Bečić brought to the Phanar the petition for autocephaly of the "Montenegrin Church", – the SOC

The Speaker of the Assembly of Montenegro, Aleksa Bečić, visited the Phanar with the petition to Patriarch Bartholomew for the autocephaly of the “Church of Montenegro”. This is reported by Romfea with reference to Tanjug.

“Bečić went to the Phanar to apply for autocephaly to the Montenegrin schismatics,” the Serbian Patriarchate said in a statement.

As previously reported, on January 16, 2022, the head of the Parliament of Montenegro, Aleksa Bečić, met with the head of the Church of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew; they talked about the current situation in Montenegro, especially the laws on religious freedoms and church property.

The information that Serbian Patriarch Porfiry will visit Phanar was refuted in the SOC.