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Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See Piana degli Albanesi, Italy

Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi

Planen(sis) Albanensium

Italo-Albanian (Byzantine rite) eparchy in Sicily serving the Arbereshe communities, erected in 1937 and immediately subject to the Holy See. Raffaele De Angelis became eparch in 2025. Note: this is an Eastern Catholic eparchy, not a Latin rite diocese.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Saint Demetrius the Martyr, in Piana degli Albanesi, Italy.

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Established
1937
Catholics
23,400
Priests
21
Territory
418 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Eparch
Raffaele De Angelis
Born
24 October 1979
Birthplace
Castrovillari

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Saint Demetrius the Martyr stands in Piana degli Albanesi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (La Martorana), Palermo.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

The whole island of Sicily in Italy falls under a single eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic church sui iuris: the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi. In Arbëreshë Albanian the see is called Eparhia e Horës së Arbëreshëvet, and in Italian, Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi.