Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Sotir Ferrara | |
Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi | |
Church: | Italo-Albanian Catholic |
Metropolis: | Holy See |
Diocese: | Hora e Arbëreshëvet |
See: | Piana degli Albanesi |
Appointed: | 15 October 1988 |
Term End: | 8 April 2013 |
Predecessor: | Ercole Lupinacci |
Ordination: | 19 November 1960 |
Consecration: | 15 January 1989 |
Birth Date: | 1937 12, df=y |
Birth Place: | Piana degli Albanesi, Kingdom of Italy |
Nationality: | Albanian-Italian |
Religion: | Italo-Albanian Catholic |
Residence: | Piana degli Albanesi, Palermo, Sicily |
Occupation: | bishop |
Profession: | priest |
Sotir Ferrara (5 December 1937 – 25 November 2017) was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy.[1]
Born in Piana degli Albanesi on 5 December 1937,[1] after studying in preparation for the priesthood on 19 November 1960, he was ordained priest.[1]
On 15 October 1988 he was elected by the Pope John Paul II to the bishopric of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.[2] [1] He received episcopal consecration on 15 January 1989 by Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn.[1] He retired in April 2013 upon reaching the age limit of 75.
Bishop Ferrara died on 25 November 2017, at the age of 80.