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Josyf Slipyj, Major Archbishop of Lviv, 23 December 1963 − 7 September 1984 [note 1] Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Major Archbishop of Lviv, 7 September 1984 − 14 December 2000 [note 2] Lubomyr Husar, 26 January 2001 − 10 February 2011 [note 3] as Major Archbishop of Lviv, 26 January 2001 − 29 August 2005; as Major Archbishop of Kyiv ...
Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania or simply Archbishop of Albania (Albanian: Kryepeshkopi i Tiranës, Durrësit dhe gjithë Shqipërisë) is the primate of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. He is also head of the Holy Synod. [1] The first archbishop was Visarion Xhuvani. The current archbishop is Anastasios of Albania.
[1] Catholicism is strongest in the northwestern part of the country, which historically had the most readily available contact with, and support from, Rome and the Republic of Venice . Mirditë has the highest concentration of Catholics while, Shkodër is the center of Catholicism in Albania .
Anastasios was ordained as a deacon on 7 August 1960; [1] as a priest on 24 May 1964; and as Bishop of Androusa for the position of the General Director of Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece on 19 November 1972. [1] He was acting archbishop of the Holy Archbishopric of Irinoupolis (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) from 1981 through 1991 and ...
The four major archiepiscopal churches in the Catholic Church are: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) (Byzantine Rite) - Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Many in this Church claim patriarchal dignity for it, but the Holy See recognizes it only as a major archepiscopal Church.) [1]
Major archbishop This page was last edited on 24 November 2013, at 16:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Bishop Fan Noli, founder of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. After Albanian independence in 1912, Fan Noli, who in 1924 would become an important political figure and prime minister of the nation, traveled to Albania, where he played an important role in establishing the Orthodox Albanian Church. [ 43 ]
In 1736, he was appointed Byzantine Catholic Archbishop of Durazzo. [1] He was born in 1690 in Piana degli Albanesi, an Arbëreshë village of Sicily and there he became a priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church. He is thought to have taken his first lessons from Giorgio Guzzetta. [2]