The new Primate will need to be savvy, navigating between conflicting pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian currents in the small but opinionated Albanian Orthodox Church. For the first time in decades ...

The enthronement ceremony will take place on March 29 at the Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana, gathering representatives from 13 ...

Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church ...