Rrok Mirdita

Rrok Kolë Mirdita (September 28, 1939 – December 7, 2015) was the Catholic Archbishop of Durrës-Tirana, and the Primate of Albania.[1]

His Excellency Rrok Kolë Mirdita
Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës Primate of Albania
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës
Appointed	25 December 1992
Installed	25 April 1993
Term ended	7 December 2015
Predecessor	Vinçenc Prennushi
Successor	George Anthony Frendo
Orders
Ordination	2 July 1965 by Aleksandar Tokic
Consecration	25 April 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Rank	Metropolitan Archbishop
Personal details
Born	(1939-09-28)September 28, 1939 Klezna, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present day Montenegro)
Died	December 7, 2015(2015-12-07) (aged 76) Tirana, Albania
Nationality	Albanian
Motto	Ut omnes unum sint

Styles of Rrok Mirdita

Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Biography

He was ordained a priest on July 2, 1965, aged 25, and served in ethnic Albanian parishes in Bronx and Westchester counties of New York.

On December 25, 1992, aged 53, he was appointed the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës and consecrated on April 25, 1993, by Pope John Paul II and Cardinals Camillo Ruini and Jozef Tomko, along with three other bishops (Zef Simoni, Frano Illia and Robert Ashta) during the Pope's pastoral visit to Albania. Mirdita was the President of Albanian Bishops Conference and the Chairman of Caritas Albania.

On his initiative St. Paul's Cathedral was built in Tirana. Its triangular architecture, according to the Archbishop's idea, symbolizes the cohabitation of Islam, Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism in Albania. The first Holy Mass in the new cathedral was celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican's Secretary of State, and Archbishop Mirdita on January 27, 2002. The Archbishop's house was built next to the Orthodox cathedral and at Christmas 1999, Mirdita and the Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios (Anastas) greeted parishioners together. Rrok Mirdita was an Honorary Citizen of Tirana, Albania.

He died at Mother Teresa Hospital in Tirana on 7 December 2015.[1]

References

"Rrok Mirdita, me një histori të gjatë me Nju Jorkun, ka qenë simbol i unifikimit të katolikëve të Treshtetshit - New York-New Jersey-Connecticut". Bota Sot.

External links

Rrok Mirdita at catholic-hierarchy.org

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Catholic Church titles
New title	Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës 1993 – 2015	Vacant

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