TIRANA, Albania — 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. He was 95.

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Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.

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The roughly 400,000 refugees who poured into Albania in 1999 must have been shocked to find Orthodox Christians there opening up their homes and offering them food and clothes. Most of the refugees ...

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to Athens due to complications from a virus earlier this month, has died aged 95, the hospital said Saturday. Archbishop Anastasios, 95, is ...

FILE PHOTO: Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania Anastasios holds a mass at Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana, Albania, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo ATHENS ...