Named Bishop of Banat in the 1980s , he held the title until the end of 1990 . During the late 1980s , Amfilohije engaged in anti-Catholic propaganda and accused the Catholic church and Croats of endangering Serbs within Croatia . In 1990 Amfilohije became a candidate for Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church ( SOC ) . A week before political elections in Serbia , on 6 December 1990 Serbian President Slobodan Milošević attempted to get control of the SOC through supporting his preferred candidates such as Amfilohije for patriarch . Amfilohije did not succeed in getting many votes and as such did not make the final shortlist of candidates for the role . A few days later the elderly Danilo Dajković retired and in December 1990 Amfilohije was elected to succeed him as Metropolitan of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral , a position he holds to this day . Guests that were present at his inauguration ceremony were Matija Bećković , Novak Kilibarda and Radovan Karadžić . The arrival of Amfilohije to his new role was greeted by numerous people that ranged from high ranking politicians to Serbian nationalists in Montenegro . At Cetinje in December 1990 public protests by people against his appointment as metropolitan followed , due to the reputation of Amfilohije as a Serb nationalist and his denial of a separate Montenegrin identity . The Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro reemerged as a spiritual and political force during the late 1980s following the appointment of Amfilohije as metropolitan . In his role as metropolitan he initiated a programme to construct new churches , monasteries and rebuild old churches . Other initiatives by Amfilohije resulted in more monks , nuns , priests and people into the church and an increase of Montenegrins baptised into Orthodoxy during a time when his relations with the Yugoslav Montenegrin government were strained . Relics from the bodies of saints were used to rally and to " re-Christianise " the population by the SOC such as those from St. Basil that were divided and later sent out to other monasteries in Yugoslavia . In Montenegro new churches exhibited fragments of people deemed as martyrs that had died at the Jasenovac Concentration Camp to remind parishioners of the suffering that Serbs had undergone in World War Two . Amfilohije campaigned to rehabilitate Nikolaj Velimirović , an interwar Serbian Orthodox cleric imprisoned by the Axis powers during the Second World War whom he viewed as a martyr . At Cetinje , Amfilohije opened a new theological school , a publishing house known as Svetagora and a radio station called Radio Svetagora . Amfilohije is the main supervisor of his publishing house Svetagora . At the time his relations with the Montenegrin government were lukewarm and he lobbied for religious education by the SOC to be compulsory in schools
suffering that Serbs had undergone
Persecution of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
Amfilohije Radović