Born Anastasios Yannoulatos in Piraeus, Greece on Nov. 4, 1929, he arrived in Albania in 1991, immediately after the collapse of the Communists that had ruled the country since the mid-1940s ...

As for his personal belongings, he left them to his immediate associates while the books in the library of Dyrrhachion ...

This is the first-ever visit by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to this country TIRANA, April 28. /TASS/. The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Kirill I, arrived on Saturday in Albania ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after ...

A girl pays his respects to the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania during his funeral, inside the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, in Tirana, Albania, Thursday ...

Albanian's leaders and visiting Greek Prime ... A similar service was held at the main Greek orthodox Church cathedral in Athens before the procession travelled to Tirana. Born Anastasios ...