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The late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania made an invaluable contribution to Orthodoxy and has left an indelible mark not only on Albania \u201cbut in every corner of the earth where Hellenism lives and breathes,\u201d Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said in a tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the diaspora in Albania, the homeland and Hellenism as a whole are in mourning at the passing of Anastasios,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was both a spiritual leader and an active servant of mankind and his rights. Sometimes as a helper of the children of Africa and sometimes as a supporter of the Greek students who resisted the dictatorship,\u201d the premier continued, describing Anastasios \u201cas a pioneer of the Church in Albania\u201d and \u201cthe pioneer for the interests of our national community\u201d there.<\/p>\n
While the archbishop\u2019s \u201cvoice may have been silenced, it will forever broadcast messages of life and peaceful coexistence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Anastasios, who revived the country\u2019s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, died Saturday morning, aged 95, in the intensive care unit of Evangelismos hospital in Athens due to organ failure after a number of weeks of illness.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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