The heartfelt condolences of the Ecumenical Throne and himself were personally sent by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a telegram to the Holy Synod of the Holy Church of Albania for the expiry of the blessed Archbishop of Tirana, Durres.

More specifically, the text of the patriarchal telegraph:

In the event of the late Albanian Church of Albania, Kiros Anastasios, renovated and reformed by it, many and invaluable care of the Orthodox Orthodoxy, the Christian Hierarchy and the Martyrs of the catastrophe and the promotion of the Holy Science, expressing the condolences of the Mother of Constantinople Church and us personally. We pray all in favor of resting this soul in the country of living and in the scenes of law, and as the structural and archbishop of the Church of Christ is a successful successor.

The memory of the blessed Archbishop Anastasios, our brother and co -worker, eternally and brutal.

Sir

Patriarch Bartholomew.

El. M.