The enthronement ceremony will take place on March 29 at the Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana, gathering representatives from 13 ...

In August 2022, World Council of Churches Acting General Secretary Ioan Sauca sent the archbishop a letter congratulating him on marking 30 years as head of the Albanian Church. "We join our ...

The new Primate will need to be savvy, navigating between conflicting pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian currents in the small but opinionated Albanian Orthodox Church. For the first time in decades ...

The election marks a new chapter for the Albanian Church, resonating with Greek communities worldwide who share in its rich ...

Born Anastasios Yannoulatos in 1929 in Piraeus, Greece, Anastasios became head of the Albanian Orthodox Church in 1992, shortly after it was relegalized after the fall of communism. During his ...

The Eastern Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and all Albania, members of the Holy Synod of the Albanian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Ambassador in Tirana, Anatoly Karpushin ...

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.

Traditional Albanian polyphonic music can be divided into two major stylistic groups as performed by the Ghegs of northern Albania and the Tosks and Labs living in the southern part of the country.

Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church ...