{"id":69100,"date":"2025-12-31T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxalbania.org\/2020\/2025\/12\/31\/divine-liturgy-for-new-year-and-archbishops-70th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:28:07","slug":"divine-liturgy-for-new-year-and-archbishops-70th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxalbania.org\/2026\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/divine-liturgy-for-new-year-and-archbishops-70th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Liturgy for New Year and Archbishop&#8217;s 70th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>Thursday, January 1, 2026<\/strong>, at <strong>8:00 AM<\/strong>, a <strong>Divine Liturgy<\/strong> will be celebrated at the <strong>Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ<\/strong> in Tirana.<\/p>\n<p>On this day we celebrate the <strong>Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/strong>, <strong>Saint Basil the Great<\/strong>, and the <strong>Doxology for the Beginning of the New Year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this day marks the <strong>70th anniversary<\/strong> of the Primate of our Church, <strong>His Beatitude John<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the Divine Liturgy, there will be a reception at the <strong>Synodal Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-translation-note\"><em>\ud83d\udcdd Translation: AI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, January 1, 2026, at 8:00 AM, a Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":69097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1455],"tags":[2024],"class_list":["post-69100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-archbishop-anastasios"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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