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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who ...

In 1990, he fled to Italy and then to Boston, where he studied at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. In 1992, when Albanians fled the poor country en masse, Joan contacted ...

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.

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

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.