Message from Metropolitan of Apollonia & Fier Nikolla – Easter 2020
Christ Is Risen! Our enforced staying in qurantine these days, has led us to appreciate many of the gifts God has granted us. For example: the gift of freedom. Just thinking that we are not free, makes us feel spiritually ill and in melancholy. Or the gift of friendship, relationship and communication. Certain theologians claim that hell is nothing more than the incapability to […]
ARCHBISHOP ANASTASIOS: Solidarity will defeat the pandemic
Solidarity will defeat the pandemic The ideal for the continuance of humanity cannot be the right of the powerful but the globalization of solidarity Interview by Margarita Pournara, KATHIMERINI April 12th, Sunday edition. English translation by the language service of the Archdiocese of Tirana. The voice of Archbishop Anastasios of Albania from the other end of the telephone exudes as always serenity and wisdom. Either […]
Archbishop Anastasios: “Let us transmit from heart to heart the light of hope”
Interview with the Archbishop of Albania, former President of the WCC by Marianne Ejdersten, WCC director of Communication Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania shares his perspective in this E-interview about the way churches are adapting, both in Albania and worldwide, to the COVID-19 pandemic. As we pray for the researchers trying to find a treatment, churches can also emphasize our duty to […]
RESISTENCE TO THE PANDEMIC
Message to the Albanian Mass Media †Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania RESISTENCE TO THE PANDEMIC My beloved brothers and sisters, We are all astounded, as if a new World War has been declared by an invisible enemy, the Corona Virus. We are all standing uneasily before the unforeseen changes, brought about by this unprecedented pandemic, to the life […]
Christmas 2019 – RECONCILIATION
†Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania Christmas 2019 RECONCILIATION At Christmas, the great feast of the coming of the Son and Word of God to the oikoumene, we reflect upon the amazing initiative of God the Father for the reconciliation with the human race. In His infinite love He “has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live […]
Response to those who attempted to alter the meaning and purpose of our text: “In Anticipation of Christmas 2019, Appeal-Supplication for the overcoming of the ecclesiastical polarization”
Response to those who attempted to alter the meaning and purpose of our text: “In Anticipation of Christmas 2019, Appeal-Supplication for the overcoming of the ecclesiastical polarization” sent November 20th, 2019. (Published in “Dimokratia” Newspaper with the title “The position of Anastasios towards Ukraine”, December 4th, 2019) On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (the day of the great earthquake in Durres, Albania) a report by Mr. […]
Liturgy in Durrës after the earthquake
December 1, Archbishop Anastasios travelled to Durrës, and celebrated Liturgy together with Bishop Asti. After, His Beatitude visited and witnessed the devastation created by the earthquake while consoling citizens. The day was concluded with a visit to Monastery of Shën Vlash, where 167 victims of the earthquake are being sheltered and fed at the Theological Seminary and the Women’s Skete.
