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Father Grigor Pelushi says that despite the accusations made against Archbishop Anastasios, due to his Greek nationality, the vast majority of Orthodox clergy in our country are Albanians.
"While others sent their students to study in other countries abroad, the archbishop educated all the clergy who are in Albania. Today, the clergy are all Albanian citizens and they are all Albanian citizens except for two or three people who are like missionaries," said Pelushi, on the podcast "The Elephant in the Room" on A2 CNN, with Ervin Qafmolla.
Excerpt from the conversation
Ervin Qafmolla: So the accusation that was made, that this will become a Greek church, that everyone here will be Greek, that this is part of a much larger conspiracy by Greece, that this will be a Greek church that will only speak Greek, there will not be a single word of Albanian and in the midst of this all the Albanian Orthodox will be Hellenized and from there it will spread, all of Albania will be Hellenized because this was the macabre plan, resulted in the fact that we actually have a church that is more Albanian than it has ever been, perhaps.
Father Grigor Pelushi: We are the only religious community in Albania that has the fewest number of foreign missionaries, only two or three. The others are all citizens with Albanian citizenship and nationality.
In the podcast with Father Grigor Pelushin, who was once also an assistant to the Archbishop, light is shed on the life, work, public persecution and sacrifice of Anastasius of Albania, who here 33 years ago, after the fall of the communist regime, took on the task of reviving the Orthodox church and community in Albania. This is a conversation on the work of a Christian missionary, academic, leader and citizen of the world, who, on the principled foundation of "universal Orthodoxy", rebuilt the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania.
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