News

23/01/2015

FRA’ MATTHEW FESTING ATTENDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF MALTESER ALBANIA

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Order’s auxiliary organisation in Albania, Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing, accompanied by Albrecht Boeselager Grand Chancellor and Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel Grand Hospitaller, visited the headquarters of Malteser Albania in Shkodër, northwestern Albania, and learned more of the many projects and activities the organisation has undertaken in these twenty years. He was received by the President of the Organisation Mons. Lucjan Avgustini, the Executive Director Maranaj Marku and the Organisation’s staff, volunteers and collaborators.

21/01/2015

OFFICIAL VISIT OF THE GRAND MASTER Fra’ Matthew Festing IN ALBANIA

It was 1994 when the Sovereign Order of Malta and Albania established bilateral diplomatic relations. The next year Malteser Albania, the Order’s volunteer corps, started working in the country. Fra’ Matthew Festing’s official visit to the Land of the Eagles was thus prompted by two twentieth anniversaries.

28/06/2014

Ambassador Stefano Palumbo hosts his first reception on the occasion of the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist

The new the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the Republic of Albania, H.E Stefano Palumbo, and his wife Valérie hosted their first reception on the occasion of the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist, Patron Saint of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

22/01/2014

The Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta presents the Letters of Credentials to the President of the Republic

The President of the Republic, H.E.Mr. Bujar Nishani received the new Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, H.E.Mr. Stefano Palumbo, resident in Tirana, who presented the Letters of Credentials.