 Metropolitan Antonio was also in communion with leaders of several other non-canonical jurisdictions, including Patriarch Filaret Denysenko of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate), and Metropolitan Mihailo Dedeić of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church.In January 2009, he moved his seat to L'Aquila, and took the title "Archbishop of L'Aquila", but fell ill and died on 20 February 2009.After his death, his "Orthodox Church in Italy" was divided between two fractions.