Joanikije's message ahead of the enthronement "Apology to all the people of Cetinje"

This is part of the interview of Metropolitan Joanikije for Radio Svetigora, which was published on the website of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral:
"One of the events that preoccupies, not only the domestic but also the international public, the previous ten days, is the enthronement of the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Mr. Joanikije. We are two days away from this solemn act. Many stories have been raised, many voices are heard, and we thought it was the right thing to hear the real and true messages and information from the person whose enthronement was in question. What is the act of enthronement?
"In this case, it is just a continuation of this Metropolitanate. I am the 56th bishop of this St. Sava diocese, which was later elevated to the rank of metropolitanate, and the 41st metropolitan to be enthroned in the Cetinje monastery. I was ordained a long time ago right here in the Cetinje monastery, I was ordained by the blessed Patriarch Pavle, at the suggestion of our blessed Metropolitan, in the presence of fifteen archbishops, and it is one of the few episcopal ordinations that took place in the history of this metropolitanate, the act after the election of a bishop or metropolitan to promote it, in a solemn way. By the way, as the administrator of this Metropolitanate after the death of the blessed Metropolitan, later elected Metropolitan, I already have all the rights and duties that a metropolitan has.
Let me remind you: who enthroned Saint Peter of Cetinje? One should not attach too much importance, because nothing more is added to a bishop or metropolitan than he already has, by the very act of enthronement, but that simply prevailed in the life of the Church, considering how important...

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