Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotes[1] (Greek: Ευλόγιος Κουρίλας Λαυριώτης, Albanian: Evlogji Kurila)[2] (1880–1961) was a bishop of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania.

[10] He himself confirmed that his family's roots were located in the settlement of Mount Gorilla in Greece, which his ancestors left at the beginning of the 19th century and settled in the wider area of Koritsa where they founded the village of Kurila.

Kourilas also participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia and during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for Greece in the area of Chalkidiki.

[5] After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the Ecumenical Patriarchate chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared as autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania.

[13] When the communist regime of Enver Hoxha came to power in Albania in 1945, he was declared an "enemy of the state" and was deprived from the Albanian citizenship.