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Quora - December 25, 2017

Why does Albania have an Orthodox Archbishop
(Anastasios Janullatos) of Greek ethnicity instead of Albanian?

Herald Gjura, works at Microsoft
Answered Dec 25, 2017 · Author has 140 answers and 126.2k answer views


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Albania got Janullatos and USA got Archbishop Spyridon, an American-born who had spent most of his priestly life in Italy. Janullatos prove to be a successful leader, as most had predicted. And Spyridon prove to be a complete disaster. In 1999, he was removed in disgrace, for the damage he had produced to the Church of USA. Many influential Americans, are still very mad at the Patriarchate for that decision.

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