The great feast day of the Dormition of Theotokos is celebrated on 15 August, and is preceded by two weeks of fast. For the whole Christian world, the figure of the Mother of God is unequivocally and divinely connected to the Savior of the humanity - Jesus Christ and the sincere and infinite love. Theotokos protects all and supports every good human deed. She
The year 1992 had two historical dates for our Church which was resurrected from the ashes of Communism: June 24, 1992, the election of Archbishop Anastasios as head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania and August 2 - his Enthronement. This year, on August 2, 2018, the 26th anniversary of the Enthronement of Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, His Beatitude
On June 24, 1992, after the advent of democracy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Metropolitan Anastasios, as the first Archbishop of Albania. This would also mark the canonical start of the rebuilding of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania from its ruins. On this occasion, in the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in Tirana, a Pan-Orthodox Liturgy was celebrated by Archbishop Anastasios and the Metropolitan
On June 17, 2018, Third Sunday of Matthew (Lamp of the Body) the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in Tirana by the Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, the Metropolitan of Amantia, His Grace Nathanail, Bishop Asti of Bylis and other clergy. In the end, Archbishop Anastasios performed a Memorial Service on the occasion of
This evening, Sunday, April 29th, 2018, a festive artistic concert was organized in the amphitheater of the Cultural Center of the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in Tirana. This concert was organized to honor His Beatitude and Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and the Delegation that accompanied Him, with the presence of Archbishop Anastasios and members of the Holy Synod. The center of
Following the reception at Mother Teresa International Airport, Patriarch Kirill and the accompanying delegation: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations; Archbishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate parishes in the East and Southeast Asia, and head of the Moscow Patriarchate Administrative Secretariat; Archpriest Nikolai Balashov; Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk; Archpriest Andrei Bondarenko; and Fr. Alexander Volkov, traveled to
Several personalities and faithful visited the seat of the Holy Synod, which is part of Resurrection of Christ Cathedral Complex, to extend their wishes on the occasion of Easter. They were received by His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Eminence Nathanail, Metropolitan of Amantia, Bishop Asti of Bylis, etc. The President of the Republic, Mr. Ilir Meta, came to express
“-Christ is Risen! -He is Truly Risen!” This wish starts to be heard since Saturday night in all the places where the orthodox faithful celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The glamorous celebrations which took place in different areas in Albania conveyed the message of Resurrection from all the corners. As it is also said in the Paschal Sticheron, “[Today is] the day
