Archbishop Anastasios – Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Christian Academy of Warsaw.
Archbishop Anastasios – Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Christian Academy of Warsaw. With the message “The mission and responsibility of the Church is to connect humanity with the true God of Love”, His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana and all Albania, Professor Emeritus of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and Honorary Member of the Academy of Athens ended his speech entitled “Living […]
Solemn Celebration of the Dormition Feast of Holy Theotokos.
Solemn Celebration of the Dormition Feast of Holy Theotokos. On August 15, the Orthodox faithful celebrate the Dormition of Virgin Mary, which is a feast that is preceded by two weeks of fasting. This celebration which is known also as “The Assumption”, commemorates the dormition, the resurrection and the glorification of the Mother of God. The most Holy Theotokos was taken up to Heaven […]
Inaccurate claim regarding the statements of Archbishop Anastasios.
Inaccurate claim regarding the statements of Archbishop Anastasios. The phrase that Archbishop Anastasios, Archdeacon Chryssavgis’ teacher and mentor, avoided to mention or to name Russia in regards to his statements on the war in Ukraine is not accurate. On March 13th he declared during his homily at the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in Tirana, “We intensify our call for the immediate cessation of Russia’s fratricidal […]
Resurrection – love ultimately overcomes hatred – Archbishop Anastasios.
†Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania Pascha 2022 Resurrection – love ultimately overcomes hatred Christ is Risen! Soothing pain and wounds, love will ultimately be victorious. This comforting message resounds diachronically through the luminous feast of the Resurrection of Christ. The culmination of love in world history is manifested in the advent of the Son and Word of God in the […]
Sincere prayer for the cessation of the war between brothers and sisters and for peace in Ukraine.
Sincere prayer for the cessation of the war between brothers and sisters and for peace in Ukraine. Regarding the dramatic events in Ukraine, His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres, and all Albania, having called upon the faithful and upon every person of good will to intensify their prayer for peace, stressed the following: “Deep pain and sorrow floods the souls of people, when […]
Peaceful Resilience – We Are Not Alone – Christmas 2021.
†Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres, and all Albania CHRISTMAS 2021 Peaceful Resilience – We Are Not Alone. “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows” (Mt. 1:18) In these festal days various thoughts, messages, and comments about peace, love, joy, and hope are often repeated. However, there is no shortage of those who prefer to dissociate these concepts from their basic core […]
Thirty years since the beginning of a wonder which no one could imagine.
Thirty years since the beginning of a wonder which no one could imagine The 16th of July marks thirty years since the moment when a very important event, for the resurrection of our Church after the long period of severe atheist persecution, took place. On July 16, 1991, His Beatitude Anastasios arrived in Albania. He was the Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which is […]
