Eparchy of Lungro Eparchia Lungrensis Eparchia di Lungro Eparhia e Ungrës | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
Statistics | |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 33,000 [2] 32,900 [2] (98.8 [2]%) |
Parishes | 29 [2] |
Information | |
Denomination | Italo-Albanian Catholic Church [1] |
Rite | Byzantine Rite [3] |
Established | 13 February 1919 [3] |
Cathedral | St Nicholas Cathedral, Lungro [4] |
Patron saint | Saint Nicholas [3] |
Secular priests | 41 [1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Donato Oliverio [3] |
Bishops emeritus | Ercole Lupinacci [5] |
Map | |
Website | |
eparchialungro.it |
The Eparchy of Lungro (Italian: Eparchia di Lungro; Albanian: Eparhia e Ungrës) is a eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, [6] Eastern Catholic sui iuris of Byzantine Rite in Calabria, Italy.
It was created in 1919, as an eparchy directly subject to the Holy See, for members of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, [2] the Catholics of the Byzantine Rite who had emigrated, mostly from Epirus and Albania, to Sicily and Calabria. [7]
The diocese received territory from the Archdiocese of Rossano, Diocese of Cassano all'Jonio and Diocese of San Marco e Bisignano. [3]
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1990 | 32,500 | — |
2000 | 32,800 | +0.09% |
2005 | 32,965 | +0.10% |
2009 | 32,900 | −0.05% |
2010 | 32,900 | +0.00% |
Source: CNEWA [1] |