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.
Biography
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.
He died at Mother Teresa Hospital in Tirana on 7 December 2015.
References
External links Rrok Mirdita at catholic-hierarchy.org