Italo-Albanese Eparchy of Lungro
The Eparchy of Lungro is an eparchy of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church sui iuris of Byzantine Rite in Calabria, Italy.
History
It was created in 1919, as an eparchy directly subject to the Holy See, for members of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Catholics of the Byzantine Rite who had emigrated, mostly from Epirus and Albania, to Sicily and Calabria.The diocese received territory from the Archdiocese of Rossano, Diocese of Cassano all'Jonio and Diocese of San Marco e Bisignano.
Ordinaries of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese Catholic Church
- Felice Samuele Rodotà † from San Benedetto Ullano, titular archbishop of Beroe in Thrace.
- Nicolò De Marchis † from Lungro, titular bishop of Nemesis in Thrace.
- Giacinto Archiopoli † from San Demetrio Corone, titular bishop of Gallipoli in Thrace.
- Francesco Bugliari † of Santa Sofia d'Epiro, titular bishop of Tagaste in today's Algeria.
- Domenico Bellusci † of Frascineto, titular bishop of Sinope in today's Turkey.
- Gabriele De Marchis † from Lungro, titular bishop of Tiberiopoli in Phrygia.
- Agostino Franco † from Mezzojuso, titular bishop of Ermopoli Maggiore in today's Egypt.
- Giuseppe Bugliari † from Santa Sofia d'Epiro, titular bishop of Dausara in Osroene.
- Giuseppe Schirò † from Contessa Entellina, titular bishop of Gadara in Jordan and later archbishop holder of Neocesarea del Ponto.
- Giovanni Barcia † from Palazzo Adriano, titular bishop of Croia in Albania.
Bishops of Lungro
- Giovanni Mele †
- Giovanni Stamati †
- Ercole Lupinacci †
- * Salvatore Nunnari
- Donato Oliverio, from 12 May 2012