The first ideas about creating a special Orthodox church of ethnic Montenegrins arose outside Montenegro, at a time when Montenegrin fascists and collaborators led by Sekula Drljević gathered under the auspices of the Ustaša regime in the Independent State of Croatia. During 1943 and 1944, under the influence of the clerical-fascist ideology of the Ustaša movement, Drljević formulated a thesis on the diversity of Montenegrin Orthodoxy not only in relation to Serbian Orthodoxy, but also in relation to Orthodoxy in general. On that occasion, he coined the notion of "crnogorоslavlje", putting it in opposition to "svetosavlje". Looking at the Ustaša project of the Croatian Orthodox Church, Drljevic claimed that ""the Montenegrin Church has not been in any dependence of any Orthodox Church for all centuries"".