Panteleimon Kotokos
Panteleimon Kotokos | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Gjirokastër | |
Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire | |
| Died | 24 May 1969 Athens, Greece |
Panteleimon of Gjirokastër (
Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. He was the metropolitan bishop of Gjirokastër (1937–1941) and later the President of the exiled Northern Epirus resistance faction KEVA after the end of World War II.[1][2]
Panteleimon Kotokos was born in
University of Athens.[3]
After an agreement with the
Eulogios Kourilas, as metropolitan of Korçë.[2]
When the communist regime of Enver Hoxha came to power in Albania (1945), he was declared 'enemy of the state' and was expelled from the country.[2] He fled to Greece where together with Eulohios Kourilas became the heads of the Central Committee of the Northern Epirote Struggle (KEVA). On November 18, 1945, he managed to organize a massive demonstration in Athens, where 150,000 people participated.[4] The following years he became active as a member of the exiled Northern Epirus lobby propagating discrimination of the Greek minority by the Communist regime of Albania.[5]
References
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Oikonomou, Phōtios G. (1988). Ē Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Alvanias, 1912-1988 kai ē symvolē tēs eis tēn diatērēsin tou Ellēnismou tēs Voreiou Ēpeirou Η Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Αλβανίας 1912-1988 και η συμβολή της εις στην διατήρηση του Ελληνισμού της Βορείου Ηπείρου (in Greek). Nea Thesis. p. 24.
- ^ Tönes, Bernhard (1983). "Belastungsprobe für die albanisch-griechischen Beziehungen". Südosteuropa - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung (in German). Südost-Institut München. Abteilung Gegenwartsforschung: 440–456 [442].
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