PATRIARCH GAVRILO'S RETURN TO BELGRADE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400170007-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 7, 1947
• Content Type: IR

COUNTT Tugoslavia
SUBJECT Patriarch G a. 94 ;
to Bei.gra~
25X1A
NTR L tar t LOGE E GROUP
llTE !GE NCE REPORT
ORIGIN
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DATE- 25X1X
DIST. 7 Bch 1947
PAGES 2
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1. Patriarch Cavr iloz a rett to Belgrade was prompted by his fear
of the possibility that the ?lo Sy:tod would elect a new Patriarch
favorable to the Tito Regime. Upon his arrival in Belgrade, without
fanfare, he i=adiateiy wetut to his residence -&ere Metropolitan
Josip ingested hi*n ? .th powers. Arn ug the first to call on the
Patriarch was Vida aeeviciaft for r Orthodox priest and now
Minis ter in the Federated Govtei'nmena t of Serbia, with a delegation
of Orthodox priests who Joined the Tito Ri gi e. During the call
Metropolitan Josip briaf'ed them on the present status of the
Orthodox Church..
2. Anaang otI a s i'ho o .l.ec! or he patriarch was a delegction from
the arcrc?o.a . ~s Orth=odoc ChUrc a raquesting autonoi for their Church,,
7m refits=ing ,h c l tia *a ,? ont s aeeuaest, Cavriio stated that so far
a 4 is conc crned ~ .~ :o aut i3 thing as a Macedonian eople;
`' 't c: i b, no a:u`;Wioi us Macedonian Church.
C 113 this ec :n c L ion, it should be noted that
et.r a~._. ? a r' PS ^ ?. v z at one tir M tropoiitan of Skopl je
ace op~.;_ wd as : xpelled by the ,algarians during their
OC?...:j.spZv3.., in. 1941. He was not permitted by the
Tito Regim to rcturn to his forma r post.
,.other delegation which called on the Patriarch comprised a
group of prc=?IYi.t - -thodox priests from Montenegro who were
accused ' Gavr o, hitsseif a Siontenegr n, of abandoning the
Church for poi.ities. Ga i o also received Milovan Djilas,,
Minister in t? as Q nt al Government another . Montenegrin*
It iss Msport d that Gumr- to p :.i.d a call on Tito only aftA'r
without rc3aehi rag aaai? filial decis o `
Me .^oaolit4=.r Josip and Bishop Dr. Nektarije Krul j, 'both
strong nationalists. Tito received the Patriarch
cool ,
They to c :.s s- draw inng up of a law JOr "Me , Churchb but
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