The Church in Albana has 491,870 Catholics, or 16.4% of the total Albanian population of 3,002,392, according to statistics in the new (2025) edition of the Annuario Pontificio [Pontifical Yearbook], published by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. Remarkably, a single diocese (the Diocese of Lezhë) has the majority of the nation’s seminarians.
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