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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.
The bishop of the archdiocese from 2005 - 2019 was Nikon (Liolin), who was elected to the position of Bishop of Boston and the Albanian Archdiocese on October 22, 2003.He was later installed as Bishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese on December 18, 2005, reflecting his election by the Holy Synod to simultaneously head the OCA's Diocese of New England which is based in ...
During 1999, when Albania accepted waves of refugees from Kosovo, the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, in collaboration with donors and other international religious organizations (especially ACT and WCC), led an extensive humanitarian program of more than $12 million, hosting 33,000 Kosovars in its two camps, supplying them with food ...
With the controversy around Bp. Theofan's status, the end of World War II, and the increasing suppression and manipulation of the Albanian Orthodox Church by the new Communist government, a significant portion of Orthodox Albanian-Americans petitioned the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, to send a canonical bishop.
Such assemblies have the authority to propose future administrative structures for the Church in their respective regions. The first conference of the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America was held at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in New York on May 27–28, 2010 under the chairmanship of Archbishop Demetrios of America.
In November 1990, the Albanian government, influenced by international changes, decided to ease measures against religion. In June 1992 the Exarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Anastas Janullatos, was elected Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and all Albania, through many difficulties, [4] began the resurrection from the ruins of Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.