GREECE INTENSIFIED ITS ACTIVITIES IN ALBANIA AND ALSO STARTED ORTHODOX PROPAGANDA. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN ALBANIA IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF GREECE.

ALBANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IS MANAGED BY A GREEK PRIEST, ANASTASIAS JANULATOS, AND SERVES IN THE DIRECTION OF GREEK INTERESTS. HE WAS ATTENDED AS THE HEAD OF THE INDEPENDENT ALBANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BY ISTANBUL PATRIACH IN 1992. AS HE WAS ATTENDED HE DECLARED HIS TARGETS WITH HIS DECLARATION: "WE DO NOT WANT ISLAM IN ALBANIA". HE HAS BEEN PREACHING IN GREEK SINCE THEN.

IN 1998 WITH THE ADMISSION OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION THE CHURCH GAINED THE RIGHT TO ACQUIRE ASSETS. AFTER THAT DATE, JANULATOS STARTED TO BUILD CHURCHES EVEN IN THE REGIONS WITH NO ORTHODOX COMMUNITY (NORTH ISKODRA CITY). HE HAD BEEN IN AN EFORT TO SPREAD ORTHODOX WITH THE SUPPORT OF GREECE SINCE HIS ATTENDANCE IN 1992. UNTIL NOW WITH THE SUPPORT OF GREECE, HE HAD MANAGED TO RENOVATE 79 CHURCHES, 5 MONASTERIES, RESTORATE 66 HISTORIC CHURCHES, REPAIR 135 CHURCHES, BUILD A RELIGIOUS COMPLEX IN DURRES, CONSTRUCT ONE MONASTERY IN TIRAN, PRIESTS HOUSE, GUEST HOUSE, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CENTER IN LUSHNIJA, YOUTH CENTERS IN ELBESAN, KAVAJE AND KORÇA, SMALL FACTORIES FOR PRODUCING CANDLE AND WOODWORKS.

JANULATOS IS ALSO INTERSTED IN MOSLEMS AND IS TRYING TO MAKE THESE MOSLEMS, WHO CONSTITUTE 70% OF ALL POPULATION, ORTHODOX THROUGH FINDING THEM JOBS IN GREECE AND GIVING THEM 50-100 USD AID.

NATIONALIST INTELLECTUALS IN ALBANIA DO NOT WANT JANULATOS WHO THINKS THAT ALL ORTHODOX ARE GREEKS, AS THE HEAD OF ORTHODOX CHURCH. THEY WANT THE PRIEST OF THE CHURCH SAINT MARIA IN THE CITY OF ELBASAN NIKOLL MARKU INSTEAD. NIKOL MARKU IS A FANATIC ALBANIAN NATIONALIST. HE HAD EXPELLED THE GREEK PRIESTS IN SAINT MARIA CHURCH WITH HIS FOLLOWERS IN 1995 AND DECLARED THE CHURCH AS " ELBASAN OTHODOX CHURCH" AND HE HAD NOT RECOGNIZED ANASTASIAS JANULATOS. HE ARGUES THAT ALBANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HAD GAINED INDEPENDENCE WITH A DECISION OF ISTANBUL PATRIACH IN 1937. ACCORDING TO THE 16 th ARTICLE OF THE SAME DECISION THE HEAD OF THE SECT SHOULD HAVE THE SAME BLOOD, RELIGION, CITIZENSHIP WITH THAT OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE REGION. BASED UPON THAT HE ARGUES THAT ANASTASIAS JANULATOS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR THIS POSITION AND HE WORKS FOR EXPELLING HIM.