According to Elsie he was born in Delbnisht village of Kurbin region in central Albania,[1] back then Ottoman Empire.

According to Albanian sources, he was born in Mallkuç village near Durrës in present-day Bubq municipality, son of Jak Trokshi and Diella Vathi, a Catholic woman from Kurbin.

[2] His intelligence was noted by Raffaele D'Ambrosio, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Durrës, back then stationed in Delbnisht.

[1] Regardless, on 29 December 1892, Pope Leo XIII nominates him as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Skopje, which he officially took over on 10 January 1893.

[2] Trokshi encountered increasing Slavic tendencies in the Albanian speaking parishes which he opposed, and started a series of reforms.