Upon learning of the election of the new Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, Metropolitan Ioannis, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sent him a warm message of congratulations on Sunday afternoon, wishing him a blessed and fruitful ministry.
Later that same day, His All-Holiness personally contacted His Beatitude Archbishop Ioannis by telephone, and the two Primates engaged in a cordial and fraternal conversation.
