what was Mother Theresa's nationality when she wasnt declared a living saint yet???

Answer 1

Her passport was Albanian for much of her life, making that her "nationality". But a little known fluke is that after her work became too much for the Communist government of Albania, they revoked her passport. That's when she was officially given "citizenship" by the smallest (and one of the most powerful) countries of the world...The Holy See. It's ruler at the time, Pope John Paul II, ordered the Secretary of State of the Holy See to issue her a diplomatic passport of the Holy See. That way she could travel anywhere in the world with the safety of diplomatic immunity.

Answer 2

Nationality is normally where you are a citizen not necessarily your ethnicity. So Genevieve's mom gave you the correct answer.

A point to make, I had an ancestor that was on the 2nd supply to Jamestown in 1608. That was BEFORE the Mayflower. I have one family line where my ancestors have been in this country 40,000 years or more. They were here to greet the newcomers from Europe when they arrived. Still if someone was naturalized yesterday in a Federal court, their nationality would be just as much American as mine.

Answer 3

This extraordinary woman was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 27 of August 1910 in Skopje, now Republic of Macedonia.
There is a confusion about hers nationality and about the history of her family. Mother Teresa spent 18 years of her life in Skopje, before she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, sailing later, to India as a teacher.

Answer 4

a hell of a good question. technically she was born in the Ottoman Empire, cause at the time she was born there was no state of Macedonia but only the Ottoman Empire. she was born in 1910, before the first world war. who knows what a passport she had. maybe Indian, maybe one of the Vatican.

Answer 5

She was born in Macedonia, but at the time she was born it was separated into different republics.

Her nationality has been disputed as she never liked to speak of her past, life or her family and their heritage.

Personally, I'd say she was Macedonian because that was where she was born.

Answer 6

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on 26 August 1910, in Skopje, which is now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia (formerly Albania). She was the youngest of the children of a family from Shkodra, Albania, born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu.
In her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service, and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life.
She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She never again saw her mother or sister.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity. But the nuns of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the order.
In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery, but it was clear that her health was declining. On March 13, 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, nine days after her 87th birthday.
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, an associated brotherhood of 300 members, and over 100,000 lay volunteers, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.
Mother Teresa was granted a state funeral by the Indian Government in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India. When she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society - that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult." More specifically, she singled out abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace in the world'.

Following Mother Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Some of Besra's medical staff and, initially, Besra's husband insist that conventional medical treatment eradicated the tumor. Unless dispensed by the Pope, a second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.

(This is just part of the article found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa).

Answer 7

she was albanian, ethnically