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Serbian Orthodox Church bishop Porfirije, centre, leaves the St. Sava temple in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Serbian Orthodox Church gathers in closed session to pick a new Patriarch, following the death of old one Irinej. Irinej died last year of covid, following the outbreak of virus among church officials in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as patriarch

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

A woman kisses the coffin of Patriarch Irinej as he lies in repose at the St. Sava Temple in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Patriarch Irinej, has died after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was 90. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Mourners pay respects to Serb Patriarch Irinej despite virus

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2019. file photo, Serbian Patriarch Irinej attends a ceremonial burning of dried oak branches, in front of church of St. Sava in Belgrade, Serbia. The Serbian Orthodox Church says Patriarch Irinej has been hospitalized after testing positive for the new coronavirus. Patriarch Irinej last Sunday led the prayers at the big public funeral for the church head in Montenegro, Bishop Amfilohije, who had died after contracting the virus. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Head of Serbian Orthodox Church in hospital with coronavirus

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Thousands gathered by an open casket with Bishop Amfilohije's body during the liturgy and and funeral outside the main temple in the capital Podgorica, Montenegro, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Bishop Amfilohije died on Friday after contracting the coronavirus weeks ago. A mass funeral on Sunday was held for the popular head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro in violation of restrictions that are in place against the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Huge funeral for Montenegro bishop despite rising infections

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

Believers pray by the coffin of Bishop Amfilohije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, in Podgorica, Montenegro, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. The church said the 82-year-old died Friday from pneumonia caused by COVID-19. Amfilohije, known for his staunch anti-Western and pro-Russian political views, played a key role in leading the anti-government protests and putting together an opposition coalition that is currently trying to form the country's new government. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Thousands mourn death of Montenegro bishop amid virus fears

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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2010 file photo, Bishop Amfilohije performs the liturgy in Belgrade's Congregational church, Serbia. Amfilohije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, which led months of protests against the small Balkan state's pro-Western government, has died in hospital after contracting the coronavirus, the church said Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Head of church in Montenegro dies after COVID-19 infection

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 file photo, Montenegro President Milo Djukanovic speaks and gestures during an interview to The Associated Press in Montenegro's capital Podgorica. Montenegro's president says the upcoming parliamentary vote is crucial in the defense of the small Balkan country's independence in the face of renewed attempts from Serbia and Russia to install their nationalist and anti-Western allies to power. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic, File)

Montenegro votes in tense election testing long-ruling party

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 12, 2020, people wait in a queue in front of the Christian Orthodox monastery of Ostrog, 30 kilometers northwest of the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. Serbia has strongly protested the detention of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests in Montenegro after thousands of people attended a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings because of the new coronavirus. Montenegrin prosecutors say that the priests are facing charges of violating health regulations during the virus outbreak by organizing the procession on Tuesday in the western town of Niksic. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Serbia protests priests’ detention in Montenegro

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

People walk by graffiti showing a Serbian flag, left, and text reading &quot;Montenegro and Serbia'' in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Montenegro PM, Serbian church bishop meet on religious law

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

A man holds a cross during a rally in central Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Thousands of Serbs have answered a call by the Serbian Orthodox Church to stage a protest against alleged suppression of religious and other rights of minority Serbs in neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian church protests ‘suffering’ of Serbs in the Balkans

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Serbian Orthodox Church clergy in Montenegro march and hold a banner reading: ''Judgment and Justice are in God's name'' as they protest the planned adoption of a religious law that they say will pave the way to strip the church of its property, in Podgorica, Montenegro, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Montenegro's pro-Western president has accused the church of promoting pro-Serb policies in Montenegro and seeking to undermine the country's statehood since it split from Serbia in 2006. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Montenegro church property law passes after Parliament chaos

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

Pro-Serbs rally in Montenegro against religious law

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press

Serbian Orthodox Church clergy in Montenegro protest law

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European Court orders Bosnia to remove Orthodox church

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A man carries a boy on his shoulders during a protest in front of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Several hundred people are joining the dispute between the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbia’s nationalist authorities because of a bid to move the remains of visionary scientist Nikola Tesla from the Tesla Museum to a church in Belgrade. Famed Serbian scientific pioneer in electricity, radio and x-rays, died in 1943. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

Serbs decry plans to move Tesla’s ashes to church

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

This photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 shows the brightly-colored newly painted fresco in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Christ's Resurrection in Montenegro's capital Podgorica. The fresco allegedly shows late Yugoslav autocratic leader Josip Broz Tito drowning in red fiery waves of hell with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of the 1848 Communist Manifesto. They are in the company of Adam and Eve, together with some of Montenegro's current politicians and people wearing Muslim turbans. What appear to be rival church priests are being swallowed through a huge jaw of an angry gray beast with pointed devil ears. The fresco has triggered much attention and public controversy in this tiny former communist country. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Communists roast in hell in Montenegro fresco

By PREDRAG MILIC - Associated Press