Albania’s Orthodox Church has held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios ...

The enthronement ceremony will take place on March 29 at the Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana, gathering representatives from 13 sister Orthodox Churches and hundreds of believers.

Bendo’s connection to Maine is a love story, according to the priest and his wife, Georgia Bendo. In 2004, Georgia, an American from the South, moved to Albania to work with the Orthodox ...

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

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

He studied in the United States at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. In 1994 he returned to Albania and became a priest and lectured at the church’s Theology University. Following more ...

He was secretly baptized in 1979 by priest Kosmas Kyrios, who later became the bishop of Apollonia. All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was ...

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall ...

In 1994 he returned to Albania and became a priest and lectured at the church’s Theology University. Following more studies at the same university in Boston, in 1998 Joan became metropolitan of ...