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Rrok Kola Mirdita (born September 28 1939 Klezna Kingdom of Yugoslavia today Montenegro) is the Catholic Archbishop of Durrës-Tirana and the Primate of Albania.He was ordained a priest on July 2 1965 aged 25 and served in ethnic Albanian parishes in Bronx and Westchester counties of New York.On December 25 1992 aged 53 he was appointed the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës and ordained on April 25 1993 by Pope John Paul II and Cardinals Camillo Ruini and Jozef Tomko along with three other bishops (Zef Simoni Frano Illia and Robert Ashta) during the Pope’s pastoral visit to Albania.