The Archdiocese of Albania this week issued a statement over the recent developments regarding the issue of Ukrainian Autocephaly and the “intrusion” of the Moscow Patriarchate into territories under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.
Specifically, the announcement pointed out that the views of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania on these issues have “… been clearly stated in his texts, which have been responsibly published from 2019 until recently.”
The announcement clarified that any other interpretive effort “…does not correspond to reality”.
In his recent commentary on the decision of the Russian Church to create an “Exarchate of Africa”, Archbishop Anastasios stated that “this is a painful development.”