Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson

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YANNOULATOS, ANASTASIOS

YANNOULATOS, ANASTASIOS, Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, missionary, educator (1927– ). Earning his Diploma in Theology from the University of Athens in 1952, he was ordained to the diaconate (1960), and was made archimandrite (1964). In 1971 he founded the international Orthodox Missionary Society in Athens, with the focus of missionary activity in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Sudan. On 19 November 1972 he was consecrated bishop of Androusa. He was director of the Nairobi Theological Seminary from 1982, and also served as Metropolitan of the Diocese of East Africa. From 1983 to 1991 he was moderator of the Commission of World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches. From 1986 to 1990 he served as patriarchal vicar of Trinoupolis (Alexandria) and was elected patriarchal exarch of Albania (qq.v.) in 1991. More recently he was elected to the Albanian see by the Albanian Church. He has been to the United States on a number of occasions to speak on mission ventures in Africa, and has published English-language articles in International Bulletin of Missionary Research, International Review of Mission, and Missionalia.


Источник: The A to Z of the Orthodox Church / Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson - Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 462 p. ISBN 1461664039

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