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 the fall of the country’s ...

Pope Francis sent his condolences to the Orthodox Church in Albania on Monday following the recent death of Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos, who led that church for nearly 33 years.

with Orthodox and Catholic Christians making up much of the remainder. The Albanian Orthodox Church will elect Anastasios' replacement.

PHOTOS: Thousands of Albanians pay last respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios Anastasios led the church after he re-established it in 1991. Albanian’s leaders and visiting Greek ...

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 ...

The communists had also expropriated the property of the established Islamic, Orthodox, Catholic and other religions. Anastasios led the church after he re-established it in 1991. Albanian's ...

He led the Albanian Orthodox Church for nearly 33 years. Under his leadership, after the fall of communism, more than 400 parishes were reopened and several new churches were built to support ...

Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter celebrations at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral in the capital Tirana, on May 1, 2016.

ATHENS - Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania ... to its strengthening and paving a new path for the Albanian Orthodox faith, especially following a challenging period ...