Gjergj Radovani (1734–1790) was an Albanian

Albanians

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 prelate

Prelate

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 of the Roman Catholic Church

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Life

Born in Shkodër

Shkodër

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, northern Albania

Albania

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 in 1734 from 1767 to 1771 he served as the apostolic vicar of the Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv. In 1771 he was ordained as Bishop of Shkodër. During his tenure he founded the diocese's first Catholic school in the village of Sheldi. In 1776 he submitted his Albanian translations of the Catholic prayers for publication to the Propaganda Fide. From 1787 to his death in 1790 he served as Archbishop of Antivari. In 1788 he mediated the negotiations between the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II

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 and Kara Mahmud Bushati

Kara Mahmud Bushati

Kara Mahmud Bushati was a noble of the Bushati family in Ottoman controlled Albania near the city of Shkodër. In the 1780s his rebellious character brought him into conflict with the Ottomans. This conflict is regarded in Albanian historiography as a bid to create an independent principality...

regarding an anti-Ottoman alliance between the two factions.

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