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The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, mostly concentrated in the region of Calabria and Sicily).
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 Albanian population of Italy, only the Albanians with Albanian nationality, has noted a steady increase in the recent years especially during the fall of communism in the 1990s and the beginnings of the 21st century. [13] [14] [4] It has doubled between 2003 and 2009 from 216,582 to 441,396 constituting a total increase of 103,8%. [15]
Donato Oliverio – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy [28] Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro – Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy; Nikollë Filja – Arbëreshë Byzantine rite priest, and writer of the 18th ...
Eleuterio Francesco Fortino – Priest of the Italo-Albanian Church in Calabria and writer of the Bizantine and Albanian culture; Angelo Masci – Writer; Luca Matranga – Byzantine rite priest, one of the first writers in Albanian; Francesco Antonio Santori – Writer, playwright and poet of the Albanian National Awakening
Papa Eleuterio Francesco Fortino (1938 – 2010), priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, Archimandrite in the Eparchy of Lungro in Calabria, served as the Under Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and albanolog. Arch. Rrok Kola Mirdita (1939 – 2015), Catholic archbishop. Mons.
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.
Girolamo de Rada (Arbëresh: Jeronim de Rada) (1814–1903), Italian writer of Italo-Albanian literature of Arbëreshë descent: he was the foremost figure of the Albanian National Awakening in 19th century Italy. Ernesto Sabato, Arbëreshë/ Argentine poet, physicist and writer; Burim Myftiu, Albanian-American photographer, curator and visual ...