Archbishop Anastasios in critical condition

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania is in critical condition, doctors said Sunday.

"Today's state of the health of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios is deemed critical by the attending physicians," the Evangelismos hospital said in a statement Sunday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens visited Anastasios in the central Athens hospital Sunday.

Anastasios was urgently transported to Evangelismos hospital on Friday for treatment after suffering a gastrointestinal bleeding.

The 95-year-old Archbishop had been hospitalized in Tirana since December 30 for monitoring after contracting a seasonal virus.

On Saturday, the hospital had said Anastasios' condition was stable.