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Monsignor <\/span>Luigj<\/span> Bumçi<\/span> (1872–1994), senior cleric, political activist, member of the Supreme Council of the Albanian state, passed away. He was born in Shkodër, where he spent his first years of schooling. He studied philosophy and theology at the College for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome. He started his ecclesiastical career as a priest and parish priest at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, he was appointed bishop of the Catholic diocese of Lezhë with headquarters in <\/span>Kallmet<\/span>, where he lived and worked until the end of his life. <\/span>Luigj<\/span> Bumçi<\/span> was also active in the country’s political events on the eve of independence. In 1911, he <\/span>participated<\/span> in the talks between the Albanian rebels of <\/span>Mbishkodra<\/span> and the Ottoman authorities. In December 1918, he was elected a member of the provisional government that <\/span>emerged<\/span> from the Congress of Durrës and, at the same time, a member of the delegation of this government to the Peace Conference in Paris. From June 1919 to February 1920, <\/span>Luigj<\/span> Bumçi<\/span> was appointed <\/span>chairman<\/span> of that delegation. At the Congress of <\/span>Lushnja<\/span> (1920), he was elected a member of the Supreme Council for 4 years, <\/span>established<\/span> to temporarily perform the duties of the head of the Albanian state until 1921. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: Monsignor <\/em><\/span>Luigj<\/span> Bumçi<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. <\/span>1<\/span><\/span><\/em>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 330-331.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luigj_Bum%C3%A7i<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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