Gaspër Krasniqi, (in Italian Gasparo or Gaspare Crasnich) [1] [2] also referred as Joshtar Krasnik, Gashpar Krasnik, or Don Karlo Krasnik, [3] was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest who served as Vicar Apostolic of the Diocese of Skopje. [4]
Krasniqi served as
abbot of the St. Alexander church in
Orosh,
Mirdita, in today's
Albania.
[2] On 24 June 1839, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Skopje.
[5]
In 1849, he functioned as intermediate between
Bid Doda Pasha and Mark Prenk Lleshi, representatives of Mirdita, and the Internal Minister of the
Principality of Serbia
Ilija Garašanin, regarding Mirdita's cooperation with Serbia and
Montenegro against the
Ottoman Empire.
[6] Again, during the
Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–62), he helped organizing the Northern Albanian Catholic tribes for an uprising against the Ottomans, with the support of French emissaries of
Napoleon III. He was subsequently arrested by the Ottomans.
[7]
He died in 1876.
[2]
...а од 1846 је у вези са мирдитским опатом Гаспаром Красником, захваљујући коме је дошло и до споразума о заједничкој акцији са мирдитским кнезом Боб Додом 1849. године.