His religious scholarship, his scientific endeavors, his missionary work in Africa, and his unwavering efforts to rebuild the Orthodox Church of Albania—despite numerous challenges—offer us an ...
She emphasized that the archbishop contributed to religious harmony and coexistence in Albania and the world. "The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania and the Orthodox faithful lost today their ...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.
Born Anastasios Yannoulatos in Greece in 1929, he arrived in Albania in 1991, immediately after the fall of the communist regime that had ruled the country since the mid-1940s, to resuscitate the ...
The property return is not yet complete, with religious communities continuing to claim areas and buildings. Anastasios was instrumental in revitalizing the Orthodox Church in Albania and was ...