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Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See Lungro, Italy

Diocese of Lungro

Lungren(sis)

The Eparchy of Lungro is an Eastern Catholic eparchy of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (Byzantine Rite) in Calabria, Italy, erected on 13 February 1919 for Byzantine-rite Catholics of Albanian descent. It is immediately subject to the Holy See and is led by Eparch Donato Oliverio. Note: the source brief listed this as Latin rite, but it is in fact a Byzantine (Italo-Albanian) eparchy.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Myra, Lungro, in Lungro, Italy.

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Established
1919
Catholics
32,000
Priests
46
Territory
493 km²

Parishes and churches

26 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Eparch
Donato Oliverio
Born
5 March 1956
Birthplace
Cosenza

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Myra, Lungro stands in Lungro, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

About 28 km (17.5 mi) west-southwest of Cassano all'Jonio in Calabria, Italy, stands the town of Lungro, seat of an eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic church sui iuris. In Italian the see is the Eparchia di Lungro; in Albanian, Eparhia e Ungrës.