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 |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi |
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]
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.