[1] Lazër (Llazar) Mjeda was born in Shkodër, Ottoman Empire — present-day Albania — on March 6, 1869.

During this time, the Catholic Church also made him the Titular Archbishop for the Diocese of Areopolis.

From mid 1909 till late 1921, Mjeda was the Archbishop of the Diocese of Skopje.

During the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars, his detailed report of Serbian war crimes, widespread massacres, and ethnic cleansing against both Albanian Catholics and Muslims in his Diocese was carefully investigated by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office and ruled to be a credible source.

[3] Mjeda was member of the literary society Society for the Unity of the Albanian Language (Albanian: Shoqnia e Bashkimit të Gjuhës Shqipe,Bashkimi i Shkodrës), creator of Bashkimi alphabet, one of the main Albanian alphabets discussed in the Congress of Monastir of 1908.