Category:Bible--Albanian tr. (text)

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Bible Translations into Albanian

Overview

• 1761 -- The first known translation of the New Testament into Albanian is the so-called Elbasan Gospel Manuscript. The manuscript was written in 1761, probably the work of Gregory of Durrës, the Metropolitan (archbishop) of the Archdiocese of Durrës.

• 1821 -- Vangjel Meksi completed the translation of the New Testament into Albanian, which was posthumously published in 1827.

• 1857 -- Kostandin Kristoforidhi published a series of translations of the New Testament and other Biblical books into Albanian.

• 1980 -- The Catholic priest Simon Filipaj published in Croatia a translation of the New Testament into Albanian.

• 1994 -- After the fall of the Communist regime, Simon Filipaj completed the first edition of the whole Bible in Albanian; see Shkrimi shenjt: Besëlidhja e Vjeter dhe Besëlidhja e Re (1994 Filipaj), book.

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