Also attending were CPC metropolitan Mihailo, representatives of political, science and cultural institutions of Croatia and Montenegro, local authorities, and religious communities.
CPC commissioner for Croatia Milorad Nikcevic said Montenegro had waited 88 years to restore its independence and that today the country was focused on European integration.
Croatica-Montenegrina president Ernest Fiser said Croatia and Montenegro were on the road to the European community of peoples to which they had always belonged.
Metropolitan Mihailo said Croatia was the first country in the world to have verified the CPC by entering it into the Croatian registry of religious communities on June 8, and that by recognising Montenegro's recent independence from the state union with Serbia, Croatia had recognised the indigenousness and identity of the Montenegrin people and nation.
The metropolitan said Croatia had permanently indebted Montenegro and the CPC through numerous examples of solidarity and friendship.
He thanked Croatia and the Croatian people for everything they had done and were doing for Montenegro, and said it was his sacred duty to ask for forgiveness for what some Montenegrins had done during the war in Dubrovnik. The metropolitan said that although they had been a marked minority, they toyed with honour and name, forgetting the common past.
He also said the CPC had met with great understanding among the Croats and the Catholic Church.
Presidential envoy Vladimir Loncarevic voiced confidence the CPC would contribute to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue in Croatia.