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.
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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.