In the “Albert Einstein” hospital, in New York, Monsignor Zef Oroshi (\u00c7oku), senior catholic cleric, bishop, founder of the first Albanian catholic church in the USA, Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bronx, New York), publisher, translator, passed away. He was born in Kaftall\u00eb in Mirdita, in 1912. He completed his primary education in his hometown, while he started high school in 1927 at the Saverian College in Shkod\u00ebr and, after a year, continued at the Minor Seminary in Thiene (Italy). On October 22, 1936, he studied theology at the International College. He graduated in 1940 from the Congregation for the Propagation of Religion and was ordained by Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi. This same year, he interrupted his doctoral studies and returned to Albania, where the Bishop of Mirdita, Monsignor Frano Gjini, appointed him his secretary. At the same time, he served as parish administrator of the Church of Shen Koll in Spa\u00e7 and, from 1942, as parish priest of Maria Magdalena in Ungrej of Lezha. In 1951, the Security Forces tried to arrest him while giving mass, but he managed to escape. Supported by his faithful parishioners of Ungrej, in mid-1951 he crossed the border with Yugoslavia. In the years 1952-1954 he studied philology and philosophy in Belgrade. In 1954 he went to Italy (Rome), wherein 1960, he continued his doctoral studies in theology, which he had interrupted in 1940. In 1961, the Vatican sent him to the USA, as the spiritual leader of the Albanians. Since 1966, he has published the English-Albanian quarterly “Jeta Katholike Shqiptare ” (\u201cAlbanian Catholic Life\u201d <\/i>). Three years later (1969), he founded the first Albanian catholic church in the USA, the church of Our Lady of Good Counsel (today Our Lady of Shkodra), in Bronx, New York. The first mass was held on Christmas 1969. In 1973, he founded the “Albanian Catholic Center”. In January 1974, after the publication of\u201cShkrimi i Shenjt\u00eb (Kat\u00ebr Ungjijt\u00eb dhe Pun\u00ebt e Apostujve)\u201d(<\/i>\u201cThe Holy Scripture (The Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles)\u201d<\/i>, Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) gave him the honorary title Monsignor, for his merits towards Albania and his pastoral work with Albanians in emigration. (In the photo: Zef Oroshi)<\/i> <\/p>\n
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