Russian, Greek Orthodox Orthodoxs Join Tirana

In the presence of key Russian and Greek diplomats and clerics in Albania, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kiril, on the second day of his first official visit to Albania, along with Archbishop Albania Anastas Yanulatos held Divine Liturgy in the cathedral of Christ “in Tirana.

Present at the ceremony were Russia's Ambassador to Tirana Alexander Karpus, Greek Ambassador Eleni Sourani, as well as various Russian, Greek and Albanian clergymen.

Tirana returned for one day to an important centre of the Eastern Church, Albanian writes.

Patriarch Kiril praises St. Cosmo figure

At the end of the joint mass, Patriarch Kiril praised the image of St. Cosmo.

St. Kozmai of Etholi as well as the apostles, who once preached on this earth and died here with a death of martyr from men of another faith, in his counsel says the wonderful words: “the All-merciful God has many and different names. It's called Light, Life, Painting. But His main name is Love”. Christ's love gives us life, and where she is, there is no place to die.

I would like to thank Your Fortress for the invitation and for this opportunity to hold a common prayer with you and with the entire Holy Church of Albania. May peace and love for Christ be with all of us. God saved your Holy Church and her godly witch!

Kiril for role of Albanian Orthodox Church in Kosovo war

The Russian party also praised the role of the Albanian Orthodox Church and Anastas Yanulatos during Serbia's war in Kosovo.

Church service to people is also part of this testimony, part of its cognitive heroic act here, on earth. I remember what great efforts the Orthodox Church of Albania under the leadership of Your Tourism during the armed conflict in Kosovo, expecting all refugees indiscriminately to have political beliefs and beliefs. The Orthodox world was amazed at how the modest forces became such an extraordinary job. The church is powerless to prevent all woes and calamities that bring evil human will into this world. But evil and death may be opposed by her single, unbreakable weapon - love and compassion for the entire human race.

FRlAR Cosmoi after historian Jufi's study

But historian Pellumb Jufi raised serious doubts about the role of saint in our country.

FRlAR Kozma's second mission aimed at spreading the Greek language to Albanian trains through the opening of Greek schools. In that sense the second mission remains as political as the first. Cosmoi left Istanbul in 1775 again equipped with Patrick's permission and Sultan Mehmet I's farm. But now Cosmo had been appointed by the Church's holy Sinody as “Inspector General of Greek Schools... As he writes to his brother, Hersanth, at the end of his Cosmai mission he managed to set up 210 schools in lower Albania. These were all Greek schools, and such a fact made Cosmo Etol undoubtedly a predecessor of Hellenism in Albania, but not a “national education compromiser”, as any Albanian fan (? )

It is known that Cosmo was a friend of Kurt Pasha of Berat's Sararies as well as of Filat, Paramithia, Delvina, etc. That's all it did to these ones if the monk puts his stake at <x0--helenism” under their nose and under their protection. Their ranks were sufficient to keep quiet and pay their taxes, for which Cosmo did not spare his sermons. ... today there is no Greek to recognise “sender” anti-Albanian, semi-alphabets from Etolia and his grave at Kolcondas, any other value than the ambientity of the Orthodox population of Myzee yesterday, and an absurd mortgage on Albanian lands today. With this evil aim, St. Cosmoi has deliberately entered the Albanian Autocephare Orthodox calendar, and Myphamists honor her without knowing who she is and why. Like the Muslim believers of Petrala who don't know why they honor the tirbe of Ballaban Pasha, the traitor and enemy of Albania...! ?

The so - called St. Cosmo was born in 1714 in a lost village of Etoli. He took up religious teachings at Mount Athos, the monastery of Philotheus, as a clergyman to serve in Albania as well. His life closes with the murder in the village of Kolcondas (Fier) on August 24th, 1779. Legend has it that the murder was committed at Kurt Pasha's order as a result of the plots of the Jews of Berat. The accounts of the deeds and martyrdom of St. Cosmo are a popular version of Bible confessions, in the analogy with the martyrdom of Jesus Christ. Such confessions were born in clerical and illiterate environments, found widespread expansion in times of political and spiritual crisis, was the end of the eighteenth century. After the failure of the 60th-70th century anti-communist uprisings V III, the Christian populations of the Balkans and Albanian populations were suppressed at a reception of “the miracle worker”.