| Eparchy of Lungro Eparchia Lungrensis Diocesi di Lungro |
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| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
| Statistics | |
| Population - Catholics |
32,900 (98.8%) |
| Parishes | 29 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Rite | Byzantine Rite |
| Established | February 13, 1919 |
| Cathedral | St. Nicholas Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Saint Nicholas |
| Secular priests | 41[1] |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Benedict XVI |
| Apostolic Administrator | Salvatore Nunnari |
| Emeritus Bishops | Ercole Lupinacci |
| Website | |
| eparchialungro.it | |
The Italian Catholic eparchy of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi is in Calabria. It was created in 1919, as an eparchy directly subject to the Holy See,[2] for members of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Roman Catholics of the Greek Rite who had emigrated, mostly from Epirus and Albania, to Calabria and Sicily.[3]
The see is currently vacant, the most recent bishop, Ercole Lupinacci, having retired in August 2010.[4][5] Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cosenza–Bisignano, was named Apostolic Administrator on August 10, 2010.[6]
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