The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation this way: "Within the Catholic Church ... include the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Melkite ...

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

Albania’s Orthodox Church has held an inauguration ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios following his death in January ...

Catholic and other churches. 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...