“Albania’s Autocephalous Orthodox Church wants to live in peace with all,” said Archbishop Joan, adding that religious ...

The new Primate will need to be savvy, navigating between conflicting pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian currents in the small but opinionated Albanian Orthodox Church. For the first time in decades ...

In August 2022, World Council of Churches Acting General Secretary Ioan Sauca sent the archbishop a letter congratulating him on marking 30 years as head of the Albanian Church. "We join our ...

ATHENS - The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to Athens due to complications from a virus earlier this month, has died aged 95, the hospital said Saturday. Archbishop ...

He is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox believers in Albania make up about 7% of the 2.4 million population, although the church says the ...

He is the second Archbishop of the country's Orthodox Autocephalous Church after the fall of the communist regime and the ...

All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, ...

The official enthronement ceremony of the new Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, Ioannis, will take place today ...

The Eastern Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and all Albania, members of the Holy Synod of the Albanian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Ambassador in Tirana, Anatoly Karpushin ...

Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church ...