 Papamihali returned to Albania in 1936 and served as a parishioner in Elbasan, Korçë, Berat, Lushnje and Pogradec.From 1944 he was in charge of the Mission of the Greco-Catholic Church of Albania.He was arrested by the communist authorities in Korçë on October 31, 1946 and was later convicted as an enemy of the state.