Archbishop of Albania explained

Titleoverride:	Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and all Albania
Archbishopric:	of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
Border:	Eastern Orthodox
Coat:	Kisha Ortodokse e Shqipërisë.svg
Incumbent:	Anastasios of Albania
Incumbent Note:	since 2 August 1992
Style:	His Beatitude
Established:	17 September 1922
Cathedral:	Resurrection Cathedral, Tirana, Albania
First Incumbent:	Visarion Xhuvani

Background:	plum
The Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and all Albania
Reference:	His Beatitude
Spoken:	Your Beatitude
Religious:	Archbishop
Posthumous:	N/A

Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania or simply Archbishop of Albania (Albanian: Kryepeshkopi i Tiranës, Durrësit dhe gjithë Shqipërisë) is the primate of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. He is also head of the Holy Synod.^[1]

The first archbishop was Visarion Xhuvani. The current archbishop is Anastasios of Albania.

List of archbishops of Albania

1	Visarion Xhuvani	20 February 1929	26 May 1936
2	Christopher of Albania	12 April 1937	25 August 1949
3	Paisius of Albania	25 August 1949	4 March 1966
4	Damian of Albania	April 1966	8 October 1973
5	Anastasios of Albania	2 August 1992	Incumbent

Sources

• Book: Bido, Ardit. The Albanian Orthodox Church: A Political History, 1878–1945. 2020. London. Routledge.
• Book: Kiminas, Demetrius. The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. 2009. Wildside Press LLC.

External links

• rulers.org (It reports: "© 1995-2005 B. Schemmel. Data from this site may be queried and copied on a not-for-profit basis only if the source is accurately credited. All rights are reserved for profit-seeking purposes.")

Notes and References

1. https://orthodoxalbania.org/2020/en/archbishop-of-tirana-durres-and-all-albania AOC: Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania