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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
By Llazar Semini

Thousands of Albanians pay last respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios

Albania Greece Archbishop Anastasios - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

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 communist party in 1990.

Anastasios, who was the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres, and All Albania and also head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, died on Jan. 25 in Athens. He was 95.

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