Earlier this month a seven-member Holy Synod unanimously elected Joan, the metropolitan of Korca, in the post left vacant after Anastasios' death in January. Albania’s religious leaders, top officials ...

Earlier this month a seven-member Holy Synod unanimously elected Joan, the metropolitan of Korca, in the post left vacant after Anastasios' death in January. Albania’s religious leaders, top officials ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Newly appointed Orthodox Archbishop Joan of Tirana ...

Albania’s religious leaders, top officials and politicians, Orthodox religious leaders from around the world, a Vatican representative and Greece's ministers of defense and social cohesion ...

Albania’s religious leaders, top officials and politicians, Orthodox religious leaders from around the world, and Greek religious and defense ministers were present at the ceremony. Bishop ...

Albania's Orthodox Church has enthroned new Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, the newly elected primate ...

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, ...

Kukreja said that, for him, the project was not just religious but also aimed at transforming ... diplomatic and cultural relations between India and Albania remain strong. "But going forward ...