Eparchy Lungro
Eparchy Lungro | |
Basic data | |
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Rite church | Italo-Albanian Church |
Country | Italy |
Church region | Calabria |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
Diocesan bishop | Donato Oliverio |
founding | February 13, 1919 |
surface | 493 km² |
Parishes | 29 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Residents | 33,000 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Catholics | 32,900 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
proportion of | 99.7% |
Diocesan priest | 41 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Catholics per priest | 802 |
Religious sisters | 28 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
rite | Byzantine rite |
Liturgical language | Greek , Albanian , Italian |
cathedral | Cattedrale di San Nicola di Mira |
address | Corso Skanderbeg 54, 87010 Lungro [Cosenza], Italia |
Website | Epiarchia di Lungro |
The Eparchia Lungro ( Italian Eparchia di Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi , Latin Eparchia Lungrensis ) is an eparchy (= diocese ) for Catholics with a Byzantine rite with a bishopric in Lungro ( Italy ). She is the older of two Italian-Albanian dioceses today . The eparchy belongs to the ecclesiastical region of Calabria , but is not assigned to any ecclesiastical province , but immediately , i.e. directly subordinate to the Holy See .
territory
The diocese includes:
- the city of Lungro ,
- 17 parishes in the province of Cosenza in Calabria with 25 parishes in: Acquaformosa , Castroregio , Castrovillari , Civita , Corigliano Calabro , Cosenza , Falconara Albanese , Firmo , Frascineto , Plataci , San Basile , San Benedetto Ullano , San Cosmo Albanese , San Demetrio Corone , San Giorgio Albanese , Santa Sofia d'Epiro and Vaccarizzo Albanese .
- two parishes in the province of Potenza in Basilicata : San Costantino Albanese and San Paolo Albanese .
- a parish in Villa Badessa , in the province of Pescara in Abruzzo : Chiesa Santa Assunta.
- two parishes in Apulia : Chiesa San Giovanni Crisostomo in Bari and Chiesa di San Niccolò dei Greci in Lecce .
- a parish in Turin in Piedmont : Chiesa San Michele Arcangelo
history
In modern times, the Italo-Albanian Catholics of the Byzantine rite were under the jurisdiction of bishops of the Latin Church . Clemens XII presented them to you . by the Apostolic Constitution Superna dispositione of June 10, 1732, a titular bishop of the Byzantine rite as auxiliary bishop (without jurisdiction) who, among other things , had to carry out the priestly ordinations . Another Catholic-Byzantine auxiliary bishop served in Rome. Orthodox bishops officiated in Venice (for the Ecumenical Patriarchate), previously also in Agrigento (for the Archdiocese of Ohrid ).
Pope Benedict XV founded with the Apostolic Constitution Catholici fideles on February 13, 1919, the eparchy of territories ceded by the dioceses of Cassano all'Jonio and San Marco e Bisignano and the Archdiocese of Rossano . The Holy See established the Lungro Eparchy as the first Catholic diocese of the Byzantine Rite on Italian soil.
Bishops of Lungro
- Giovanni Mele (March 10, 1919 - February 10, 1979, died)
- Giovanni Stamati (February 20, 1979 - June 7, 1987, died)
-
Ercole Lupinacci (November 30, 1987 - August 10, 2010, retired)
- Salvatore Nunnari (August 10, 2010– May 12, 2012) ( Apostolic Administrator )
- Donato Oliverio , since May 12, 2012
statistics
year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
1950 | 40,900 | 41,000 | 99.8 | 38 | 30th | 8th | 1,076 | 4th | 34 | 24 | |
1970 | 36,900 | 37,000 | 99.7 | 38 | 31 | 7th | 971 | 8th | 43 | 24 | |
1980 | 34,500 | 34,866 | 99.0 | 34 | 29 | 5 | 1.014 | 6th | 55 | 26th | |
1990 | 33,000 | 33,500 | 98.5 | 35 | 33 | 2 | 942 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 27 |
1999 | 32,500 | 32,965 | 98.6 | 31 | 30th | 1 | 1,048 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 27 |
2000 | 32,450 | 32,850 | 98.8 | 30th | 30th | 1,081 | 1 | 35 | 27 | ||
2001 | 32,200 | 32,600 | 98.8 | 30th | 30th | 1,073 | 1 | 35 | 27 | ||
2002 | 31,950 | 32,328 | 98.8 | 30th | 30th | 1,065 | 1 | 34 | 27 | ||
2003 | 31,850 | 32,200 | 98.9 | 30th | 30th | 1,061 | 1 | 33 | 27 | ||
2004 | 32,800 | 33,182 | 98.8 | 31 | 30th | 1 | 1,058 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 29 |
2009 | 32,900 | 33,000 | 99.7 | 41 | 41 | 802 | 1 | 28 | 29 |
See also
literature
- Cirillo Korolevskij: L'eparchia di Lungo nel 1921. Relazione e note di viaggio. , Studio introduttivo e edizione con appendice di documenti editi e inediti a cura di Stefano Parenti (Albanologia 16). Univ.della Calabria, Dipart. di Lingustica, Sez. di Albanologia, Rende, 2011 (Italian), accessed February 17, 2017.
Web links
- Entry on Eparchy Lungro on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Eparchy Lungro on gcatholic.org (English)
- I novant'anni della Eparchia di Lungro (The 90 Years of the Eparchy Lungro). In: Arbitalia.it. Retrieved February 1, 2017 (Italian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eparchia di Lungro. Italia.indettaglio.it, accessed April 25, 2017 (Italian).