Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis to attend funeral service of Archbishop Anastasios of Albania

On Thursday, 30 January 2025, His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, and the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will be in Tirana to attend the Funeral Service of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania.

A reference was made by PM Mitsotakis during his meeting on Monday with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens, the Greek Prime Minister referred to the passing of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, noting, among other things: “These are difficult days for Orthodoxy as a whole. I think that the loss of the Archbishop of Albania has particularly “touched” us all. I was fortunate enough to know him personally. He was indeed a great hierarch and a great man, who accomplished a unique work in Albania, essentially reestablishing a destroyed Church, but first and foremost he was a man of God who cared about people. That is why I will have the opportunity, we will be together at the funeral service in Tirana to honour him as he deserves.

“He was truly a man of the few,” said Archbishop Ieronymos for his part and continued: “I also knew him and was with him since the 3rd grade of high school. May God rest his soul. We thank you for your participation in our mourning and sorrow.”