Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli, was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, bishop, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodo
Noli in c. 1924
Portrait of a young Fan Noli.
Bishop Fan Noli, founder of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania (1939).
The June Revolution, also known in Albanian historiography as the June Movement or June Democratic Revolution, was an armed uprising in Albania in June 1924. It overthrew the government associated wit
Fan Noli
…of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America who served as Prime Minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution. Fan Noli is venerated in Albania as a champion of literature, history, theology, diplomacy, journalism, music, national unity and ecumenism. He played…