Josif Papamihali
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| Born | 23 September 1912 Elbasan, Ottoman Empire (now Elbasan, Albania) |
| Died | 26 October 1948 (aged 36) Maliq, Albania |
| Cause of death | exhaustion, buried alive |
| Canonized | 5 November 2016 |
Josif Papamihali (23 September 1912 – 26 October 1948), was an Albanian Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite.
Life[edit]
Born in Elbasan on September 23, 1912, Papamihali studied Philosophy and Theology in the "Collegio Greco" in Rome, near the Angelicum, where he was ordained a priest on 1 December 1935 by the Italo-Albanian bishop of Lungro and the bishop of the Byzantine rite who ordered Albanians of Sicily.[clarification needed]
Papamihali returned to Albania in 1936 and served as a parishioner in Elbasan, Korçë, Berat, Lushnje, and Pogradec. Beginning in 1944, he was in charge of the Mission of the Greco-Catholic Church of Albania.
He was arrested by the communist authorities in Korçë on 31 October 1946 and was later convicted as an enemy of the state. On 5 August 1947, Papamihali was sentenced by the courts to 5 years imprisonment and forced labor and was transferred to Korçë and later Maliq where he died. He was buried alive in a marsh where he had fallen from exhaustion on 26 October 1948.[1]
He was beatified in Shkodër along with thirty-seven other fellow Albanian martyrs on 5 November 2016.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Atë Josif Papamihali". Kisha Katolike në Shqipëri (in Albanian). 19 October 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ At Josif Papamihali, martiri që mbrojti Papën dhe Vatikanin
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