[3] The abbot there at the time was Dionisije Milivojević, who was elected Bishop of North America by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1939 and was sent to the United States to take up his post in 1940.

[3] In 1957, he studied a theological course in New York City at the invitation of the dissident Metropolitan Leontius Turkevich, during which he performed priestly service at a church in Syracuse.

[10] In spite of that, Abramović was elected as the first head of the newly proclaimed Montenegrin Orthodox Church, at an ad hoc meeting held by his supporters on 31 October 1993 in Cetinje.

[11] The Committee denied the validity of Metropolitan Theodosius' fax and claimed it was really sent from Kotor by rector of the Cetinje Orthodox Seminary Momčilo Krivokapić.

[12] On 13 November, the state-owned daily Pobjeda published an official statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) stating that the State Security Service (SDB) had information on Abramović's "lewd activities, based on the statements of the persons injured and findings of medical facilities", and alleged he was left unprosecuted and given the right to leave the country because of his ties to the SDB at the time.

They stated that they "thought it was only fair to let Mr Abramović know that this information and these documents were known not only to the SDB, but to the people that sustained not only injuries but violations of dignity from these acts, before he accept any public position".

On 30 November, Metropolitan Theodosius informed the SOC as well as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I that the "elderly and deluded" Abramović "was falsely representing himself as an auxiliary (Vicar) bishop of Edmonton (Canada)" since he "was never consecrated" as such.

This decision was controversial, and the General Secretary of the Committee for the Restoration of an Autocephalous Montenegrin Orthodox Church Stevo Vučinić was opposed, considering it imperative to try to avoid Abramović's deposition from the clergy of the OCA.

He blamed Bobo Bogdanović and considered bringing Abramović to Cetinje while his position in the OCA was in jeopardy an attempt to score "cheap political points".

[18][9] On 17 February 1994, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Canada Georgije Đokić wrote to the OCA with the information that, despite his suspension, Abramović continued to serve as a priest at the St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Montreal.

[19][20] After this, Abramović traveled with Bogdanović and Vučinić to Skopje to try to convince the then canonically unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church to consecrate him as a bishop.

[21][22] The Serbian Patriarch Pavle wrote to the OCA on 17 February 1995 stating that Abramović continued to appear wearing archbishop's ornate, was performing baptism in Montenegro, was trying to convince the clergy of the SOC to join the MOC and was searching for someone in the world who would proclaim him bishop.

Metropolitan Theodosius wrote to Pavle telling him that Abramović was excommunicated on 22 March at the spring session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the OCA meeting in Oyster Bay Cove, New York and was given a judgment of "complete expulsion from the Church".

[3] The emergence of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church in 1993 was seen by researches as an indicative part of wider ethnoreligious and political processes that were occurring in Montenegro after the breakup of former Yugoslavia.