Fifth anniversary of the enthronement of Metropolitan Ioannikios of Montenegrotranslated

Five years have been completed today since the enthronement of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Montenegro and Parathalassia Mr. Ioannikios. In May 2021, the then Bishop of Vudimlje and Nikšić, Mr. Ioannikios, was elected by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Serbia as the successor of the blessed Metropolitan Mr. Amfilochios, and on September 5 of the same year, he was enthroned in the Holy Monastery of Cetinje amid a tense climate and episodes that had incited nationalist circles of Montenegro. He is the 56th Bishop of this historic local Church, which goes back to an old Serbian Diocese that was founded about 800 years ago, as well as the 41st Metropolitan enthroned in the Holy Monastery of Cetinje where today a High Priestly Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the occasion of the anniversary of his enthronement.

During the Divine Liturgy, Archpriest Dusan Bigović referred, on the occasion of the gospel reading, to the need for man to recognize the "Pharisee" who may be hiding in his own heart, emphasizing that the Christian life cannot be based on self-justification and superiority over others, but on humility and ministry.