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The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church is therefore characterized by a specific ethnic group: the Albanians of Italy, Arbëreshë or Italo-Albanesi. The Albanian ethno-linguistic group of Italy has managed to maintain its identity, having in the clergy the strongest guardian and the fulcrum of ethnic identification.
The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church being a Byzantine enclave in the Latin West, is secularly inclined to ecumenism between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. [clarification needed] It was the only abode of eastern Christianity from the end of the Middle Ages until the twentieth century in Italy. [citation needed]
The St. Nicholas of Myra Cathedral [1] (Italian: Cattedrale di S. Nicola di Mira Albanian: Kryekisha e Shën Kollit) or Albanian Catholic Cathedral of Lungro also called Lungro Cathedral It is the main church of the Catholic Eparchy of Lungro, [2] the Albanian seat for Calabria and continental Italy since 1919, which has jurisdiction over all the Albanian Catholic parishes of the South who ...
The church is a co-cathedral to the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi [1] of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, a diocese which includes the Italo-Albanian (Arbëreshë) communities in Sicily who officiate the liturgy according to the Byzantine Rite in the Koine Greek language and Albanian language. [2] The Church bears witness to the Eastern ...
The Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi (Italian: Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi; Arbëreshë Albanian: Eparhia e Horës së Arbëreshëvet) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, [2] an Eastern Catholic church sui iuris of Byzantine Rite, covering the island of Sicily in 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.
The effects of this mission, generally welcomed in a positive way before communism in Albania, quickly created a very close religious and cultural bridge between the Albanian-speaking refugee communities of southern Italy and the Catholic Church in Albania, resulting in the resurrection of the Albanian Greek-Catholic Church and the ordination ...
Founded in Palermo in 1734 by the Venerable Father Giorgio Guzzetta (in Albanian At Gjergj Guxeta), Apostle of the Albanians in Sicily and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Arbëreshë in the 18th century, the Seminary has for centuries been a bastion for preserving the Albanian language, culture, and traditions. It nurtured many ...