Rrok Mirdita - Wikipedia

His Excellency Rrok Kolë Mirdita
Archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës
Church	Catholic
Archdiocese	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
Personal details
Born	(1939-09-28)28 September 1939 Klezna, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	7 December 2015(2015-12-07) (aged 76) Tirana, Albania
Motto	Ut omnes unum sint (Latin for 'That they may all be one')
Signature

Styles of Rrok Mirdita

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

Rrok Kolë Mirdita (28 September 1939 – 7 December 2015) was an Albanian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës from 1993 to his death in 2015.^[1]

Biography

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

On 25 December 1992, aged 53, he was appointed the archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës and consecrated on 25 April 1993 by Pope John Paul II and cardinals Camillo Ruini and Jozef Tomko during the Pope's pastoral visit to Albania. Mirdita was the President of the Episcopal Conference of Albania, as well as the President of Caritas Albania from 1994 to 2000.^[2]

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

References

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1 2 "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.
↑ "Shuhet arkipeshkv Rrok Mirdita". Gazeta Shqip (in Albanian). 8 December 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2024.

External links

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Rrok Mirdita at catholic-hierarchy.org

Catholic Church titles

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New title

Archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës
1992–2015

Succeeded by

George Anthony Frendo

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