Facing the World: Orthodox Christian Essays on Global Concerns.
Under his leadership, the church opened a seminary with more than eighty students and within two years increased the Albanian clergy from eleven to fifty six. Anastasios drew on his academic work and field accomplishments in East Africa to establish the structure to train local leaders. He was named Archbishop of Tirana on Jand enthroned on August 2, 1992. Anastasios was appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to be the Patriarchal Exarch for the Albanian Church with the mandate to re-establish the Autocephalous Church of Albania without regard to the ethnic origin of its people. In 1991, following the fall of the communist government of Albania and the ensuing political changes, Abp. By the time he departed Africa in 1991, he left a legacy through his efforts to assimilate with the indigenous Christians and empower them to embrace Orthodoxy as their own. These clergy provided the foundation for the renewal of the church in East Africa. Anastasios ordained sixty two indigenous priests and deacons and forty-two readers and catechists from the graduates of the seminary. Makarios III of Cyprus had founded ten years before but remained incomplete because of political instability in Cyprus. In 1982, he re-opened the Orthodox seminary in Nairobi that Abp. Anastasios worked to create a strong Orthodox community through training and establishing indigenous leaders. As acting archbishop during this transitional period, Abp. In addition to his responsibilities at the University of Athens and with the Apostoliki Diakonia, Bp. Anastasios was asked by Patriarch Nicholas of the Church of Alexandria to take on reinvigorating the Archdiocese of East Africa. John the Forerunner, in Kareas, Greece, that would participate in missionary work throughout the world. Anthony Romeos, founded a monastery of nuns, the Convent of St. Anastasios was elected by the University of Athens professor of History of Religions having established a center for missionary studies during 1971 to 1976 at the university.įurthering his work in missions, Bp. In 1972, he was consecrated the titular Bishop of Androussa in his position as general director of Apostoliki Diakonia. Anastasios and his Porefthentes staff bore fruit in the Bureau of External Missions within the Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece, the official publishing house and missionary arm of the Church of Greece that was active in many fields, including Orthodox mission. In this pursuit, he studied at universities in Hamburg and Marburg, with research work at the Makerere University in Uganda to collect material for his doctoral thesis "The Spirit Mbandwa and the Framework of Their Cults: A Research of Aspects of African Religion". Anastasios turned to postgraduate studies in history of religion including ethnology, science of religions, missiology and African studies. Anastasios decided to influence the church about the work of mission through the academic world. With the doctors recommending his not returning to Africa, Fr. Anastasios came down with malaria and had to return to Greece. Anastasios was ordained a priest and left for East Africa to celebrate his first liturgy in Uganda. Anastasios formed the inter-Orthodox mission center "Porefthentes" with the aim of educating the church in the area of missions. In 1960, he was ordained a deacon, beginning his career in the Holy Orders.Īfter receiving his diaconate, Dn. Later, he participated in the international Orthodox youth movement Syndesmos, becoming its general secretary from 1958 to 1961 and then vice-president from 1964 to 1978. After graduation he served for two years with the Greek army.įollowing his national service and his recognizing a desire to be part of the spirit renewal on-going in Greece, Anastasios joined a religious brotherhood ZOE where he became a leader in making the Orthodox faith real in student movements and teenage camps. He entered the Theological School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1947 and graduated in 1951 with a diploma with highest honors in Theology. Anastasios was born Anastasios Yannoulatos, (Albanian: Anastas Janullatos Greek: Αναστάσιος Γιαννουλάτος), on Novemin Piraeus, Greece.
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