TOC-R Metropolitan Seraphim of Moscow enters into Communion with Weird Liberal Head of “Montenegrin Orthodox Church”

At a previous meeting, Met. Seraphim had indicated that the so-called “Montenegrin Orthodox Church” headed by the controversial (to say the least) figure of Mihailo Dedeic, was applying to become part of the Synaxis.  When this was learned, sources say that various Bishops of other Churches of the Synaxis objected on bases ranging from the probable invalidity of form of Dedeic’s putative ordination by Pimen (Enev, of the “Bulgarian Alternative Synod”), the close connection that Dedeic and his representative Bishop in America, Bishop Boris, have with the US State Department in promoting Anti-Orthodox Liberal ‘values’,  to the Ecumenist meetings organized by the US State Department (including Iftar dinners) and the extreme Anti-Serbian teaching of Dedeic (including his position that St. Sava was not a Saint but a Schismatic).

Dedeic has removed St. Sava, St. Arsenius of Srijemac, and St. Stefan Nemanja from the Calendar.

For example, in Met. Michael Dedic’s Paschal Epistle for this year, 2022, he says the following:

“The Serbs with Nemanjici and Saint Sava are the means of the Greater Serbian doctrine and inhumane ideology and propaganda invented by the clero-nationalists to incite ware. Saint Sava is a schismatic who never said anywhere that he was a Serb or a Serbia.

“Saint Sava is more like a layman, instead, they raised the clergyman to the pedastal of sainthood as a Greater Serbian doctrine and produced under his name the conquering ideology of Justin Popovic and Rom Nikolaj Velimirovic. Always keep all this in mind, my dear Montenegrins!”

Questions about the sincerity or move of Dedeic away from his past have, as noted, been raised. Dedeic, only very recently, stated:

“With it, the Montenegrin Church was formally released from all ties and relations with the Belgrade Patriarchate. We expect all Orthodox churches to re-establish liturgical unity with our Church and thus confirm the bonds from time immemorial between our sister churches.

“And the Metropolitan of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Danilo, recently declared that the Montenegrin Church should also be recognize with autocephalous status. And Patriarch Bartholomew stated that the history of the Balkans should be studied again, hinting at new relations of peace and love between all sister Orthodox Church.”

Others have pointed out that Met. Pimen of the Bulgarian Patriarchate either intentionally, or otherwise, omitted the laying on of hands (the very meaning of ‘cherothonia’) at the putative Consecration of Mihailo Dedeic; wherein the Gospel was not even physical imposed upon the head of Dedeic, or hands imposed (with Pimen even refusing to say the Consecration Prayers in full, instead, delegating them to another Bishop present).

Dedeic’s website also recently published an article by a liberal Montenegrin psychiatrist, a woman named Dr. Lilia Radulovic, who lives in New York City. We do not intend to go into the whole article, but only to point out the offensive attack on traditional Orthodox monarchy that is contained in it, wherein she says:

“Since the Romanov dynasty in the 17^th century, Russians have had strongmen leaders who prefer their subjects repressed. To emotionally control the unhappy masses, these authoritarian tricksters often deflect national aggression externally. The result is a persistent ‘the world is out to get us’ motif.

“Meanwhile, Serbia’s roots trace to the crushing military defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in the late 14^th century. In framing its national origin story in loss and humiliation, Serbian leaders justify portraying Serbs as eternal victims who historical wrongs must be righted.”

One need read the entire paper to see how completely one sided it is, based upon the Anti-Orthodox presumption of Western Liberalism invented in the 18^th century, and its negative attitude to anything traditionally Orthodox. Why publish this on a website dedicated to Orthodoxy in Montenegro?

It seems unlikely, due to Metropolitan Seraphim of Moscow’s speeches,  previous writings, words, and actions which demonstrate a strong Russian nationalism / patriotism, that he has a full knowledge of what exactly is being promoted by the Western Liberal-controlled “Montenegrin Orthodox Church”; Dedeic’s group countenances such outright attacks on traditional Orthodox Christian monarchical concepts, including insulting the Tsar-Martyr St. Nicholas of Russia, as well as the Holy Tsar-Martyr St. Lazr of Serbia. 

However, even more disturbing information seems to have arisen.  Mihailo Dedeic’s twitter has also problems, for example, he promotes  “LGBTQ” material, and condemned the Serbian Patriarchate for opposing the “EuroPride” parade; Dedeic also calls for the Serbian Patriarchate to admit “LGBTQ” degenerates to their clergy, saying:

“U ime CPC, javno i oštro osuđujem ukidanje EuroPride-a u Srbiji i pozivam Srbijanske vlasti i SPC da krenu putem CPC i u redove svještenstva uvrste pripadnike drugačijih seksualnosti, prvenstveno homo i transseksualce. Budimo ljudi,budimo ravnopravni!”  (On behalf of the CPC [so-called ‘Montenegrin Orthodox Church’], I publicly and strongly condemn the cancellation of EuroPride in Serbia and call on the Serbian authorities and the SPC to follow the path of the CPC and include members of different sexualities, primarily homosexuals and transsexuals, in the ranks of the clergy. Let’s be human, let’s be equal!)

Dedeic’s recent tweet even says:

“Bog ne postoji. Drug Tito je vječan i gleda nas.” (God does not exist; but Tito is eternal.”)

Mihailo Dedeic’s bishop in the US, “Bishop” Boris (who has claimed the above Twitter account is not that of Mihailo Dedic), has several meetings with the US State Department, which is currently trying to promote “gay” and “transgender” so-called “rights” and activities, in Montenegro and Serbia. (This has since been deleted: we reference the archived website.) Also here.

The “Montenegrin Orthodox Church”, in essence, stands for Western Liberalism in both theological and political spheres, attacks on Russian military activities to defend ethnic Russians in the Donbass, promotion of the most decadent Western values, and, in essence, anything and everything that can be used to differentiate them from the Serbian Patriarchate; this is the same problem with other putative nationalist movements that oppose some historically larger power to which they have been allied.  Whether it is Montenegro or Ukraine, both have been willing to make compromise after compromise, and to install the most slavish figures to Liberalism, in order achieve some small modicum of ‘independence’; yet, in throwing off one yoke, they put on a yoke far worse.