CPC: State should own churches

The Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC) wants the government to regain ownership of churches and monasteries it owned until several years ago.

Izvor: Beta

Wednesday, 31.03.2010.

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The Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC) wants the government to regain ownership of churches and monasteries it owned until several years ago. The uncanonical Orthodox church mentioned the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) monastery of Ostrog as an example, claiming that it had been owned by the state until 2000 when the ownership was transferred to the SPC. CPC: State should own churches Commenting on Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic’s statement that the government would not interfere with the church property and legal relations, the CPC stated that restitution of ownership rights over holy places did not amount to interfering. Vujanovic told Podgorica-based daily Dan yesterday that he was not familiar with a single European country that owned churches. The CPC, however, replied to the president today that “there was not an example that state-owned churches and monasteries had been illegally transferred to ownership of a church, a foreign country’s church, except in our country”.

CPC: State should own churches

Commenting on Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović’s statement that the government would not interfere with the church property and legal relations, the CPC stated that restitution of ownership rights over holy places did not amount to interfering.

Vujanović told Podgorica-based daily Dan yesterday that he was not familiar with a single European country that owned churches.

The CPC, however, replied to the president today that “there was not an example that state-owned churches and monasteries had been illegally transferred to ownership of a church, a foreign country’s church, except in our country”.

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