Diocese of Lungro, Italy (Italo-Albanese Rite)

Continent: West Europe

Rite: Italo-Albanese (Byzantine)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Lungro / Lungren(sis) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Nicholas of Myra

History

1732.06.10: Established as Ordinariate of Italia continentale (Italiano) / Continental Italy (English)
1919.02.13: Promoted as Diocese of Lungro / Lungren(sis) (Latin) (gained territory from Archdiocese of Cosenza, Archdiocese of Rossano, Diocese of Bisignano, Diocese of Cassano all’Jonio and Diocese of San Marco and without ecclesiastical province)
1973.11.22: Gained territory from Archdiocese of Cosenza
1978: Gained territory from Archdiocese of Cosenza

Contact Info

Address: Corso Skanderbeg 54, 87010 Lungro, Italy

Phone: 0981 947234

Present Prelates

Bishop (2012.05.12 – ...):

Bishop Donato Oliverio (68)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lungro (Italo-Albanese Rite)

Bishop Donato Oliverio (68)
(2012.05.12 – ...)

Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)

Born:	1956.03.05 (Cosenza, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1982.10.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.07.01

Priest of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1982.10.17 – 2012.05.12)

Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (2012.05.12 – ...)

Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari (85)
(Apostolic Administrator 2010.08.10 – 2012.05.12)

Bishop Ercole Lupinacci
(1987.11.30 – 2010.08.10)

Born:	1933.11.23 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1959.11.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.08.06
Died:	2016.08.06 († 82)

Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1981.03.25 – 1987.11.30)

Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1987.11.30 – 2010.08.10)

Bishop Giovanni Stamati
(1979.02.20 – 1987.06.07)

Born:	1912.06.09 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1935.05.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.06.29
Died:	1987.06.07 († 74)

Titular Bishop of Stephaniacum (1967.03.25 – 1979.02.20)

Apostolic Administrator of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1967.03.25 – 1979.02.20)

Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1979.02.20 – 1987.06.07)

Bishop Giovanni Stamati
(Apostolic Administrator 1967.03.25 – 1979.02.20)

Bishop Giovanni Mele
(1919.03.10 – 1979.02.10)

Born:	1885.10.19 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1908.06.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1919.06.08
Died:	1979.02.10 († 93)

Bishop of Lungro of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1919.03.10 – 1979.02.10)

Ordinaries of Italia continentale (Italo-Albanese Rite)

Bishop Giovanni Barcia
(1902.04.24 – 1912.12.02)

Born:	(Italy)
Consecrated Bishop:	1902.06.24
Died:	1912.12.02

Titular Bishop of Croia (1902.04.20 – 1912.12.02)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1902.04.24 – 1912.12.02)

Ordinary of Silicia of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1902.04.24 – 1912.12.02▼)

Archbishop Giuseppe Schirò
(1889.07.30 – 1896.11.29)

Born:	1846.01.01 (Italy)
Consecrated Bishop:	1889.08.18
Died:	1927.08.01 († 81)

Titular Bishop of Gadaræ (1889.07.30 – 1895.11.29)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1889.07.30 – 1896.11.29)

Ordinary of Silicia of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1889.07.30 – 1896.11.29▼)

Titular Archbishop of Neocæsarea (1895.11.29 – 1927.08.01)

Bishop Giuseppe Bugliari
(1875.09.10 – 1888.09.01)

Born:	1813.03.12 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1837.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1875.11.07
Died:	1888.09.01 († 75)

Titular Bishop of Dansara (1875.09.10 – 1888.09.01)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1875.09.10 – 1888.09.01)

Bishop Agostino Franco
(1858.06.15 – 1860)

Born:	1823
Consecrated Bishop:	1858.07.04

Titular Bishop of Hermopolis maior (1858.06.15 – ?)

Ordinary of Silicia of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1858.06.15 – 1859▼)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1858.06.15 – 1860)

Bishop Gabriele Maria de Marchis
(1833.06.23 – 1858.04.18)

Born:	1775.03.09 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1799.07.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1834.07
Died:	1858.04.18 († 83)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1833.06.23 – 1858.04.18)

Titular Bishop of Tiberiopolis (1834.06.23 – 1858.04.18)

Bishop Domenico Bellusci
(1807.09.18 – 1833.03.02)

Born:	1774.08.26
Ordained Priest:	1798.08.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1807.12.09
Died:	1833.03.02 († 58)

Titular Bishop of Sinope (1807.09.18 – 1833.03.02)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1807.09.18 – 1833.03.02)

Bishop Francesco Bugliari
(1792.03.26 – 1806.08.17)

Born:	1742.10.14 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1766.11.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1792.04.10
Died:	1806.08.17 († 63)

Titular Bishop of Thagaste (1792.03.26 – 1806.08.17)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1792.03.26 – 1806.08.17)

Bishop Hyacinthus Archiopoli
(1757 – 1789.04.07)

Born:	1719 (Italy)
Consecrated Bishop:	1757.12.21
Died:	1789.04.07 († 69)

Titular Bishop of Callipolis (1757 – 1789.04.07)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1757 – 1789.04.07)

Bishop Nicolaus de Marchis
(1742.12.07 – 1757.06.02)

Died:

1757.06.02

Titular Bishop of Nemesi (1742.12.07 – 1757.06.02)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1742.12.07 – 1757.06.02)

Archbishop Felix Samuel Rodota
(1735.09.17 – 1740.10.15)

Born:	(Italy)
Consecrated Bishop:	1735.11.13
Died:	1740.10.15

Titular Archbishop of Beroë (1735.09.17 – 1740.10.15)

Ordinary of Italia continentale of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1735.09.17 – 1740.10.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cattedrale di San Nicola di Mira, Lungro, Cosenza, Calabria

Churches by City (29)

San Marco Argentano–Scalea (↙), Tursi–Lagonegro (↑), Cassano all’Jonio (→), Rossano–Cariati (↘), Cosenza–Bisignano (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 493 km²

Population: 32,000 Catholics (99.5% of 32,175 total)

Pastoral Centres: 30 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 46 priests (diocesan), 18 religious (18 sisters), 2 seminarians

Italo-Albanese Diocese of

Lungro

Italy