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The Arberia Parish ( Italian: Parrocchia ortodossa arbëresh del Patriarcato di Mosca) [1] is an Eastern Orthodox Christian parish subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church ( Patriarchate of Moscow). [1] It serves the minority Orthodox Christian community of the Arberesh people of Italy, who are predominantly adherents of the Italo-Albanian Greek Catholic Church. Its head church ( Italian: Chiesa di Santa Caterina Megalomartire, Acquaformosa) is in Acquaformosa near Cosenza and is headed by Father Giovanni Capparelli, who is a subordinate of the Patriarch of Moscow. The patron saints of the Arberesh Orthodox Church are Saint John of Kronstadt and Saint Catherine Megalomartyr.

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  • "Parishes in Italy". christianisme-orthodoxe.com. Christianisme Orthodoxe. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

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