Six years since the repose of the Metropolitan of Montenegro and Parathalassia Amfilochiostranslated

Six years have passed today since the day of the repose of the Metropolitan of Mavrovouni and Parathalassia Amfilochios. It was October 30, 2020 when the heart of the Hierarch of the Serbian Church who gave strength to the people of Montenegro, taking the reins of the Local Church in a critical period just before the breakup of Yugoslavia, was silenced forever.

Risto Radović was born in Morača, Montenegro on January 7, 1938. He graduated from the Theological School in Belgrade in 1962 and in 1965 he received a master's degree from Rome. He wrote dozens of scientific papers while receiving many state and church awards. He spoke five languages ​​fluently, Greek, Russian, Italian, German and French, while he used ancient Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic in his scientific work. He was ordained an elder in 1968. On June 15, 1973, he was declared a doctor of the Theological School of Athens after successfully defending his thesis at Saint Gregory the Palamas. In 1976 he became an assistant professor at the Theological School of St. John the Theologian in Belgrade (later the Orthodox Theological School of the University of Belgrade).…