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Distribution of Catholics in Albania as according to the 1918 census. Data unavailable in the South and East due to political instability. Traditional Catholic woman in Northern Albania. The Catholic Church in Albania (Albanian: Kisha Katolike në Shqipëri) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in ...
The Catholic Church in Albania is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. According to the numbers given by the government in 2011 it was stated that around 10.03% of the religious population is Catholic. [ 6 ]
The US International Religious Freedom Report of 2022 noted that 38% of the population (just over a million people) have a Christian background. [3] The number of Evangelical Protestants in Albania has risen from approximately 8000 in 1998, [4] to approximately 14,000 in the early 2020s. [5]
Saint Procopius Church of Tirana (Albanian: Kisha e Shën Prokopit) is an Orthodox church on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania. It was one of only two Orthodox churches that existed in the city before World War II , [ 1 ] the other one being the 19th-century Evangelismos Church , which was demolished in 1967.
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The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Albanian: Bazilika e Zojës së Këshillit të Mirë) or Kisha e Zojës [1] is a shrine to Mary used by the Roman Catholic community of Shkodër, Albania. At the foot of Rozafa Castle, the church began construction in 1917 under the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Albania during World War I. [2]
Vangjel Meksi translated the New Testament in 1821 with the support of the British and Foreign Bible Society.This work was edited by bishop Gregory IV of Athens. [3] The book of Matthew was published in 1824 and the full New Testament in the Tosk form of Albanian in 1827, in both a full volume and a split two-volume set because "the Albanians had the custom of carrying their books with them ...
Now that Albania and Kosovo are sovereign states, Protestant communities there, such as the Evangelical Brotherhood of Albania (VUSH), the Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church (KPUK) (founded in 1992 and 2005 respectively)—and other Albanian Evangelical entities—regard Gjerasim Qiriazi as their spiritual founder.