Ercole Lupinacci Explained

Type:Bishop Emertius
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Ercole Lupinacci
Bishop
Church:Italo-Albanian Catholic
Diocese:Lungro
Ordination:22 November 1959
Consecration:8 August 1981
Consecrated By:Giovanni Stamati
Birth Date:23 November 1933
Birth Place:San Giorgio Albanese
Nationality:Italian
Religion:Italo-Albanian Catholic
Occupation:Bishop
Profession:Priest
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Ercole Lupinacci (23 November 1933 – 6 August 2016) was an Italian of Arbëreshë ethnicity[1] and Bishop of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.[2]

Biography

Ercole Lupinacci was born in San Giorgio Albanese on 23 November 1933. He was ordained an Italo-Albanian Catholic priest on 22 November 1959. He was appointed Bishop of Piana degli Abanesi on 25 March 1981[3] and ordained bishop on 8 August 1981 by Bishop Giovanni Stamati with principal co-consecrators, Archbishop Saba Youakim, B.S. and Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn.

On 22 November 1987, he was appointed Bishop of Lungro replacing the deceased Bishop Stamati.[4] He retired from the See of Lungro on 10 August 2010 at age 76, and died on 6 August 2016, aged 82.

Episcopal Genealogy

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jemi - Il portale per gli arbëreshë. jemi.it. 7 August 2016.
  2. Web site: È ritornato alla casa del Padre mons. Ercole Lupinacci vescovo emerito di Lungro e degli Italo-Albanesi dell’Italia continentale - il Messaggero Italiano. 6 August 2016. ilmessaggeroitaliano.it. 7 August 2016.
  3. Web site: Diocese of Piana degli Abanesi. Catholic Dioceses in the World. Giga-Catholic Information. 4 January 2012.
  4. Web site: Diocese of Lungro. Catholic Dioceses in the World. Giga-Catholic Information. 4 January 2012.