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List Of Albanians
This is a list of historical and living Albanians (ethnic Albanians or people of full and partial Albanian ancestry) who are famous or ''notable'', sorted by occupation and alphabetically. Religious Priests * Dhimitër Frangu (1443 – 1525), friar and scholar of a noble family, treasurer and councilor of Giorgio Castriota, in 1480 wrote the first biography, in Latin, on the life of Skanderbeg, from which all later writers drew. * Father Marin Barleti (1450 – 1513), Catholic ecclesiastic and writer, author of the life of Scanderbeg. *Gjon Buzuku (1499 – 1577), bishop Catholic, author of the oldest known document in Albanian: a translation of the Roman Missal, "Meshari" (1555). * Pjetër Budi (1565 – 1622), Catholic priest and writer, published three books in Albanian and I leave several poems in his native language. * Papa Luca Matranga (1567 – 1619), priest and scholar, author of the first literary expression ''arbëresh'' of the Albanians in diaspora. *Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanians
The Albanians (; sq, Shqiptarët ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia as well as in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. They also constitute a large diaspora with several communities established across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Albanians have Paleo-Balkanic origins. Exclusively attributing these origins to the Illyrians, Thracians or other Paleo-Balkan people is still a matter of debate among historians and ethnologists. The first certain reference to Albanians as an ethnic group comes from 11th century chronicler Michael Attaleiates who describes them as living in the theme of Dyrrhachium. The Shkumbin River roughly demarcates the Albanian language between Gheg and Tosk dialects. Christianity in Albania was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome until the 8th century AD. Then, dioceses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Crispi
Giuseppe Crispi ( Arbërisht: Zef Krispi; 1781–1859) was an Italian philologist and priest of Arbëresh descent. One of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of that era, he wrote a number of works on the Albanian language. His nephew, Francesco was the Prime Minister of Italy in the late 19th century. Life Born on 30 July 1781 in Palazzo Adriano to the Crispi family, he studied at the seminary of Palermo, under Nicola Chetta. Francesco, son of his brother Tommaso, served as Prime Minister of Italy in 1887–91 and 1893-6. On 26 May 1808 Giuseppe Crispi was ordained as an Eastern Catholic priest. He was a professor of ancient Greek literature at the University of Palermo, a rector of the seminary of Palermo and a ritual bishop of Lampsaco from 1836, when he succeeded Francesco Chiarchiaro, also from Palazzo Adriano, to his death on 10 September 1859. In Palermo, a street has been named in his honour (''via Giuseppe Crispi''). Crispi's best-known work is ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church ( la, Ecclesia Catholica Italo-Albanica; it, Chiesa Cattolica Italo-Albanese; sq, Kisha Katolike-Bizantine Arbëreshë), Italo-Albanian Byzantine-Catholic Church or Italo-Albanian Church, is one of the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches which, together with the Latin Church, compose the Catholic Church. It is a particular church that is autonomous ''(sui juris)'', using the Byzantine Rite. The liturgical languages used therein are Koine Greek (the traditional language of the Eastern Churches) and Albanian (the native language of the community). The Italo-Albanian (''Arbëreshë'') members are concentrated in Southern Italy (Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria) and Sicily; in central Italy they are present only in the territorial Abbey in the Lazio region. The Italo-Albanian Church is in full communion with the Pope of Rome, directly subject to the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches, but follows the ritual and spiritual traditions that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eparchy Of Piana Degli Albanesi
The Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi ( it, Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi; aae, Eparhia e Horës së Arbëreshëvet) is a eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'' of Byzantine Rite, covering the island of Sicily in Italy. History On 6 February 1784, was established the Ordinariate of Silicia, the first jurisdiction with on ordinary for this particular church ''sui iuris'', and appointed to it the first titular bishop of the Byzantine Rite for the Albanians of Sicily: Giorgio Stassi, Titular Bishop of Lampsacus. Before, the Albanians faithful and their Orthodox priests they had no right and were at risk in assimilation in the Roman rite. On 26 October 1937, the Eparchy of Piana dei Greci was created by promoting the Ordinariate of Silicia and transferring to it territories from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Monreale (both on Sicily). On 25 October 1941, the Eparchy (Diocese) of Piana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotir Ferrara
Sotir Ferrara (5 December 1937 – 25 November 2017) was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy. Biography Born in Piana degli Albanesi on 5 December 1937, after studying in preparation for the priesthood on 19 November 1960, he was ordained priest. On 15 October 1988 he was elected by the Pope John Paul II to the bishopric of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi. He received episcopal consecration on 15 January 1989 by Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn Miroslav Stefan Marusyn (26 June 1924 in Kniaze – 21 September 2009) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop who served as the Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches (also called Dicast .... He retired in April 2013 upon reaching the age limit of 75. Bishop Ferrara died on 25 November 2017, at the age of 80. Apostolic Succession *OSBM Archbishop Andreas Alexander Szeptycki (Sheptytsky), OSBM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ercole Lupinacci
Ercole Lupinacci (23 November 1933 – 6 August 2016) was an Italian of Arbëreshë ethnicity and Bishop Emeritus of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro. Biography Ercole Lupinacci was born in San Giorgio Albanese on 23 November 1933. He was ordained an Italo-Albanian Catholic priest on 22 November 1959. He was appointed Bishop of Piana degli Abanesi on 25 March 1981 and ordained bishop on 8 August 1981 by Bishop Giovanni Stamati with principal co-consecrators, Archbishop Saba Youakim Saba Youakim, BS (born on 2 June 1914 in El Wardieh in Baalbek, Lebanon – died on 6 March 2003) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Life Saba Youakim was ordained to the priesthood on Nov ..., B.S. and Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn. On 22 November 1987, he was appointed Bishop of Lungro replacing the deceased Bishop Stamati. He retired from the See of Lungro on 10 August 2010 at age 76, and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zef Pllumi
Zef Pllumi (28 August 1924 – 25 September 2007) was an Albanian Franciscan priest and memoirist. After 26 years in communist prisons he wrote the non-fiction works Live to tell, a true story of religious persecution in Albania ( sq, Rrno vetëm për me tregue), also known as the Albanian ''gulag archipelago'', ''The Great Franciscans'' ( sq, Franceskanet e Medhaj), The Book of Memories (1944–1951) ( sq, Libri i Kujtimeve (1944–1951)). Life Zef Pllumi was born as Prenka Pllumi on 28 August 1924, in the Mali i Rencit, Shëngjin, in a family of Shkreli origin. As he says in his autobiographical book ''My infancy saga'', his mother Luke Mrija gave birth to him in a field. In his early years, in Qafë of Tëthores (located in Bogë, on the Shkreli mountains), he met Gjergj Fishta and Anton Harapi, who would come to meet through his uncle Pashko Toma. In one of those meetings, Pashko told Harapi that the little boy wanted to become a friar. Father Harapi gave him a medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Of Bulgaria
Patriarch Cyril (, secular name Konstantin Markov Konstantinov, bg, Константин Марков Константинов; January 3, 1901 – March 7, 1971), was the first Patriarch of the restored Patriarch of All Bulgaria, Bulgarian Patriarchate.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a family of Aromanians, Aromanian descent, he adopted his religious name of Cyril in the St. Nedelya Church on December 30, 1923 and became Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan of Plovdiv in 1938.
On May 10, 1953 Cyril was elected List of Patriarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Bulgaria, holding the position until his death.
Cyril was buried in the main church of the Bachkovo Monastery, 89 kilometres from Sofia.
Cyril's historical role in the Bulgarian ...
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Giuseppe Valentini (albanologist)
Giuseppe Valentini ( al, Zef Valentini; July 1900 - 16 November 1979) was an Italian priest and albanologist of the 20th century. Biography Giuseppe Valentini was born in 1900 in Padova where he studied theology as a Jesuit priest. In 1922 he moved to Albania as a missionary and actively participated in magazines such as ''Lajmetari i Zemres s'Jezu Krishtit'', and ''Leka'', which he directed since 1932. During World War II he became a professor of the Albanian language in the University of Palermo. Valentini is the author of several important works on Albanian history, law, numismatics, and sacred art. In 1940 Valentini was one of the founders and general secretary of the Royal Institute of the Albanian Studies, the predecessor institute of the Academy of Sciences of Albania The Academy of Sciences of Albania ( sq, Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë), founded in 1972, is the most important scientific institution in Albania. In the 1980s, several research institutes began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Harapi
Anton Harapi (5 January 1888 – 20 February 1946) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, educator, lecturer, publicist, and political figure during World War II. In the first years of the communist regime in Albania, he was executed due to collaboration with the Axis. Biography Early life Anton Harapi was born on January 5, 1888, in Shiroka and educated in Shkodër. He had gone to secondary school at monastic schools in Meran and Hall in Tirol by the Franciscans. He had also studied theology in Rome. Harapi supported and respected the diverse religious differences of Albanians, in that religion had never divided them, they saw themselves as a single ''blood brotherhood''. From 1923 to 1931, he taught at the Franciscan college in Shkodër and was its director. Harapi wrote the book titled “Andrra e pretashit” translated to Pretash’s dream. It is based on a dream by Pretash Cuka Berishaj a highlander from then village of Priften inside the mountain of Gruda, (Harapi worked in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco La Piana
Marco La Piana (1883–1958) was an Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin. La Piana gave his contribute through his studies on Albanian language and Arbëresh dialects. Biography La Piana was born in Piana degli Albanesi ( sq, Hora e Arbëreshëvet) near Palermo in Sicily. He is the author of a number of studies in Albanian philology, including ''Il catechismo albanese di Luca Matranga, 1592, da un manoscritto Vaticano (The Albanian Catechism of Lekë Matrënga, 1592, from a Vatican Manuscript)'', Grottaferrata 1912, ''Prolegomeni allo studio della linguistica albanese (Introduction to the Study of Albanian Linguistics)'', Palermo 1939, and ''Studi linguistici albanesi: i dialetti siculo-albanesi (Albanian Linguistic Studies: The Albanian Dialects of Sicily)'', Palermo 1949. See also *Giuseppe Schirò *Demetrio Camarda Demetrio Camarda ( Arbërisht: Dhimitër Kamarda; 22 October 1821, in Piana degli Albanesi – 13 March 1882, in Livorno) was an Arbëreshë linguist, patrio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theofan Stilian Noli
Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli (6 January 1882 – 13 March 1965), was an Albanian writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, Archbishop, Metropolitan and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America who served as Prime Minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution. Fan Noli is venerated in Albania as a champion of literature, history, theology, diplomacy, journalism, music, national unity and ecumenism. He played an important role in the consolidation of Albanian as the national language of Albania with numerous translations of world literature masterpieces.. He also wrote extensively in English: as a scholar and author of a series of publications on Skanderbeg, Shakespeare, Beethoven, religious texts and translations. He produced a translation of the New Testament in English, ''The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from the approved Greek text of the Church of Constantinopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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