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Document Details : Title: Rome's Last Efforts towars the Union of Orthodox Albanians (1929-1946) Author(s): ANGJELI MURZAKU, Ines Journal: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Volume: 58 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2006 Pages: 41-83 DOI: 10.2143/JECS.58.1.2017736 Abstract : The article offers an analysis, based on original source material, of Rome’s last efforts to realize a union of the Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and even of some followers among the Sunni Muslims and the Bektashi, with the Catholic Church. The missionary zeal of the apostolic delegates and of the monks of Grottaferrata and the sympathy the project had among certain parts of the population notwithstanding, the mission met with no success, mainly for political and religious reasons. |
