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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...