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The earliest organized Albanian dioceses were set up under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America (now Orthodox Church in America), because the Church of Constantinople would not allow the rise of any Albanian Orthodox Church and officially opposed the use of the Albanian language in churches until 1937 when the Autocephalic Orthodox Church of Albania was ...
On November 3 and 4, 2006, at the new Monastery of St. Vlash in Durrës, there was a special Clergy-Laity Assembly of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, attended by 257 representatives (including all clergy members). At this Assembly the New Constitution (Statute) of the Church was analyzed and accept unanimously.
1.12 Albanian Orthodox Church. 1.13 Polish Orthodox Church. 1.14 Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. ... Archbishop of New York and New Jersey;
The Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America played a crucial role in the resurrection of the Albanian Orthodox Church. In 1990, the Diocesan clergy and laity petitioned the ecumenical patriarch, Demetrios , during his visit to North America, to prepare a plan for the restoration of the Albanian Orthodox Church.
Autocephaly (/ ɔː t ə ˈ s ɛ f əl i /; from Greek: αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop.
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The Metropolia is a member of the IUGOC (International Union of Genuine Orthodox Churches). [3]The Metropolia has a dedicated committee for inter-True Orthodox relations, [1] which namely seeks to initiate dialogue between the bishops of the former Synod in Resistance, and beyond, concerning matters of ecclesiology and grace in mainstream Eastern Orthodoxy.