Apostolic Administration of Albania Meridionale
Albaniae Meridionalis
Apostolic administration · Byzantine tradition · Vlorë, Albania
Apostolic administration erected in 1939 for the Catholic faithful of both Latin and Byzantine rites in southern Albania, immediately subject to the Holy See. After the see changed hands in 2025-2026, Fr. Flavio Cavallini, O.F.M. was appointed apostolic administrator on 25 April 2026.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic administration
- Tradition
- Byzantine tradition
- Erected
- 11 November 1939
- Latin
- Albaniae Meridionalis
- Annuario code
- 001000511
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,921
- Population
- 1,421,036
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 3
- Catholics per priest
- 640
- Extent
- 16,172 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Apostolic Administrator
- Flavio Cavallini, O.F.M.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Louis in Vlorë stands in Vlorë, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Covering the southern regions of Albania, the Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania (Albanian: Administratura Apostolike e Shqiperisë së Jugut, Latin: Administratio Apostolica Albaniae Meridionalis, Italian: Albania Meridionale) exercises jurisdiction over all Catholics in its territory, Latin Church faithful and Byzantine Catholics alike. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës, and its cathedra stands in the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary and St.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Lagjja "Pavarësia", Rruga David Selenicasi 22, 9401 Vlorë, Shqipëria
- Telephone
- [33]230.864
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].