[1] Germanos informed the Latin Archbishop of Durrës, Primo Bianchi, his and two village leaders', and 5,000 Albanian Orthodoxes' desire to unite themselves to the Catholic Church.
Essad Pasha Toptani, Albanian minister of Interior, ordered him to be imprisoned and he was arrested in Elbasan and remained eight months in jail, accused of conspiracy.
In 1914 he was exiled to Italy by Essad Pasha Toptani's orders and only returned in 1918, however Germanos was in fear of his life, because Procopius offered a reward by his assassination in Albanian lands.
Germanos refused an offer made by Procopius with 3,000 Turkish liras and abjuration of union with Catholic Church followed by his departure of Elbasan, and it was an attitude that renewed the faith of these Byzantines united to Catholicism.
Germanos considered to be necessary to envoy sisters to give religious instructions in Elbasan to Catholic families and in 1918 remembered Papadopoulos of sad situation of his church at time and in the same year was in Grottaferrata Abbey.