Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has died

Anastasios Yannoulatos, Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, has died at the age of 95 in Athens, Greece.

Anastasios played a key role in reviving the church in Albania, an independent branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, after being elected to lead it in 1992 following the fall of the communist regime which had ruled the Muslim-majority country for decades.