{"id":8201,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/dhimiter-kokoneshi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:21","slug":"dhimiter-kokoneshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/dhimiter-kokoneshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhimit\u00ebr Kokoneshi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dhimitër<\/span> Kokoneshi<\/span>, participant <\/span>of<\/span> the <\/span>Anti-Fascist<\/span> National<\/span> Liberation<\/span> War<\/span>, <\/span>Archbis<\/span>ho<\/span>p<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>Autocephalous<\/span> Ort<\/span>ho<\/span>dox<\/span> Church<\/span> of<\/span> Albania<\/span> (1966-1967), <\/span>was<\/span> born<\/span> in the <\/span>village<\/span> of<\/span> Llëngë in <\/span>Pogradec. He <\/span>attended<\/span> the <\/span>Monastery<\/span> Normal <\/span>Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> and<\/span> worked<\/span> as a <\/span>teacher<\/span> in <\/span>his<\/span> native<\/span> village<\/span>, <\/span>where<\/span> he <\/span>also<\/span> served<\/span> as <\/span>psaltery<\/span> and<\/span> guardian<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>church<\/span>. In 1927, he <\/span>became<\/span> a <\/span>priest<\/span> and<\/span> served<\/span> in the <\/span>Church<\/span> of<\/span> Saint<\/span> Marena in <\/span>his<\/span> ho<\/span>metown<\/span>. He <\/span>took<\/span> part<\/span> in the <\/span>National<\/span> Liberation<\/span> Anti-Fascist<\/span> War<\/span> at the <\/span>head<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>partisan<\/span> unit <\/span>of<\/span> Llëng<\/span>ë<\/span>, <\/span>created<\/span> in 1942. <\/span>After<\/span> the <\/span>liberation<\/span>, he <\/span>was<\/span> appointed<\/span> to <\/span>various<\/span> positions<\/span> in the <\/span>local<\/span> government<\/span>. He <\/span>returned<\/span> to <\/span>church<\/span> service<\/span> in 1949; in 1950 he <\/span>was<\/span> consecrated<\/span> bis<\/span>ho<\/span>p<\/span> and<\/span> in 1953, he <\/span>was<\/span> appointed<\/span> bis<\/span>ho<\/span>p<\/span> of<\/span> Gjirokastra. By <\/span>decision<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>leadership<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>Albanian<\/span> Autocephalous<\/span> Ort<\/span>ho<\/span>dox<\/span> Church<\/span> in 1966, <\/span>Monsignor<\/span> Dhimitër<\/span> Kokoneshi<\/span> was<\/span> enthroned<\/span> as <\/span>Archbis<\/span>ho<\/span>p<\/span> of<\/span> Tirana <\/span>and<\/span> all <\/span>of<\/span> Albania<\/span>. <\/span>He<\/span> disagreed<\/span> with<\/span> the 1967 <\/span>decision<\/span> to <\/span>close<\/span> religious<\/span> institutions<\/span> and<\/span> violate<\/span> freedom<\/span> of<\/span> belief<\/span>. He <\/span>passed<\/span> away<\/span> in Pogradec, <\/span>on<\/span> October<\/span> 18, 1973. <\/span><\/span>(In the <\/span>p<\/span>ho<\/span>to<\/span>: <\/span>Dhimitër<\/span> Kokoneshi<\/span>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian<\/span> encyclopedic<\/span> dictionary<\/span> – Vol. 2 <\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Academy<\/span> of<\/span> Sciences<\/span> of<\/span> Albania<\/span>, “<\/span>Kristalina<\/span>-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1205.<\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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P<\/span>ho<\/span>to<\/span><\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Damian_of_Albania<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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N\u00eb fshatin Ll\u00ebng\u00eb t\u00eb Pogradecit lindi Dhimit\u00ebr Kokoneshi, pjes\u00ebmarr\u00ebs i Luft\u00ebs Antifashiste Nacional\u00e7lirimtare, Kryepeshkop Kish\u00ebs Ortodokse Autoqefale t\u00eb Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb (1966\u20131967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12141,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/12141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}