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The symposium was organized by the Monsignor Lucjan Avgustini Foundation - FILA and the Academy of Albanological Studies, in the National Museum of the Albanian capital, in the hall "Konstantin Shpataraku". Attended by the Apostolic Nuncio in Tirana, Monsignor Charles J. Brown, Archbishop of Tirana-Durres, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Albania, Monsignor George Frendo, Retired Bar Archbishop and President of the FILA Foundation, Monsignor Zef Gashi, Archbishop of Bar and ad interim administrator of the diocese of Kotor, Monsignor Rrok Gjonlleshaj, Bishop of the Diocese of Sapa, Monsignor Simon Kull, Bishop of Prizren-Pristina, Monsignor Dodë Gjergji, Mayor of Tirana, priests from Albania, Montenegro, scholars, writers and other personalities.
The Academy of Albanological Studies in collaboration with the Monsignor Lucjan Avgustini Foundation, through the personalities of the Albanian letters, brought to the attention once again after three centuries the valuable contribution of one of the clergymen whose national identity, besides the religious one, was at the center of life and activity as a priest and Albanian.
With his extraordinary ecclesiastical, patriotic, and political activity for many years, as leader of the liberation uprising of 1689, and with his theological masterpiece "Cuneus Prophetarum", or as translated by the great Franciscan Father Justin Rrota - "The Prophet's Toge", the Albanian Bishop Pjeter Bogdani is considered a cultivator and illuminator of Albanian consciousness and an early precursor of the National Renaissance movement.