Gjon Nikollë Kazazi (in Latin: Giovanni Battista Nicolovich Casasi) was an Albanian

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cleric, who served as Archbishop of the Diocese of Skopje, known for discovering

Meshari ''Meshari'' ( Albanian for "Missal") is the oldest published book in Albanian. The book was written by Gjon Buzuku, a Catholic cleric in 1555. The book contains 188 pages and is written in two columns. ''Meshari'' is the translation of the main ...

Gjon Buzuku Gjon Buzuku (15 March 1499 – 9 October 1577) was an Albanian Catholic priest who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian. Gjon Buzuku according to the elders wrote the Missal in the village of Brisk Posht in the Shestan - Krajë region, ...

Biography

''Monsignor'' Gjon Nikollë Kazazi was born on 1 January 1702, in Yakova,

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. He finished elementary school in Yakova, at 18 he continued theological studies at Illyric College of St. Peter in

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and graduated in 1727 at Illyric College of Loreto, in which he studied philosophy, rhetoric and grammar, in 1727 he got the title of doctor of philosophy and theology. After graduating he became a priest, in 1743 he became Archbishop of Shkup In 1740 he discovered

of Gjon Buzuku. Monsignor Kazazi was the first Albanian researcher in

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/ref> Kazaz also referred to detecting fever medicine against disease. He died and was buried in his hometown.

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Bishops of Skopje Albanian Roman Catholic archbishops Albanian language 1702 births 1752 deaths 18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Ottoman Empire People from Gjakova {{Europe-RC-bishop-stub