Ignazio Ceffalia

Ignazio Ceffalia is an Italo-Albanian hierarch of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

Biography

Ignazio Ceffalia was born on 28 April 1975 in Palermo, Italy, from a family of Piana degli Albanesi belonging to the historic Albanian community of Italy of Catholic-Byzantine tradition. He was ordained a priest in the Piana degli Albanesi Cathedral for the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi on 6 August 2003.
He knows Italian, Albanian, French, English and Spanish; liturgically he also uses Ancient Greek as per the tradition of the Italo-Albanian Church.

Diplomatic career

On 1 July 2006, he entered the Holy See diplomatic service and has served in the apostolic nunciatures of Ecuador, Thailand, the Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the Section for Relations with States and International Organizations of the Secretariat of State, and finally nunciature counselor in Venezuela.
On 25 March 2025, Pope Francis appointed him Titular Archbishop of Fiorentino and Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus. He was consecrated as an archbishop on 22 May 2025.