The Eparchy of Lungro (Italian: Eparchia di Lungro;

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: ''Eparhia e Ungrës'') is a eparchy (diocese) of the

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It was created in 1919, as an eparchy directly subject to the

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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 † (17 September 1735 – 15 October 1740 died) from San Benedetto Ullano, titular archbishop of Beroe in

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Lungro Lungro ( aae, Ungra) is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of Italy. Lungro is one of the most prominent centers of the Arbëreshë people and the seat of the Eparchy of Lungro. This jurisdiction of the C ...

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, titular bishop of Croia in Albania.

Bishops of Lungro

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† (10 March 1919 – 10 February 1979 died) *

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† (20 February 1979 – 7 June 1987 died) *

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 Al ...

† (30 November 1987 – 10 August 2010 withdrawn) **

Salvatore Nunnari Salvatore Nunnari (born 11 June 1939, in Reggio Calabria) is the Archbishop Emeritus of Cosenza-Bisignano. Biography Nunnari was born 11 June 1939 in Reggio, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. He was ordained priest on 12 July 1964. He was appo ...

(10 August 2010 – 12 May 2012) (apostolic administrator) *

Donato Oliverio Donato Oliverio (Cosenza, 5 March 1956) is the Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy. He replaced the most rev. Ercole Lupinacci. Episcopal genealogy * Archbishop Nilo Isvoroff * Bish ...

, from 12 May 2012

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History

Ordinaries of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese Catholic Church

Bishops of Lungro

See also

Notes

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