Archbishop Anastasios, 95, is credited with having revived the Orthodox Church in Muslim-majority Albania and has led the Church there for three decades. The Church on Saturday expressed "great ...

Archbishop Anastasios, a Greek national, had regularly received medical care in Athens in recent years Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades ...

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 ...

Greek Orthodox priests stand next to the casket of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania as people pay their respects during a religious ceremony, a day before his ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday. He was 95. Anastasios ...

Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.

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 ...

FILE - 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 ...