Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on Saturday, the church announced. Anastasios played a key role in ...

FILE - Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter celebrations at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral in the capital Tirana, on May 1 ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

FILE - Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter celebrations at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral in the capital Tirana, on May 1, 2016.

Archbishop Anastasios, 95, is credited with having revived the Orthodox Church in Muslim-majority Albania and has led the Church there for three decades. The Church on Saturday expressed "great ...