Diocese of Piana degli Albanesi
Planen(sis) Albanensium
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See · Byzantine tradition · Piana degli Albanesi, Italy
Italo-Albanian (Byzantine rite) eparchy in Sicily serving the Arbereshe communities, erected in 1937 and immediately subject to the Holy See. Raffaele De Angelis became eparch in 2025. Note: this is an Eastern Catholic eparchy, not a Latin rite diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Byzantine tradition
- Erected
- 26 October 1937
- Latin
- Planen(sis) Albanensium
- Patron
- Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
- Annuario code
- 001002598
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 23,400
- Population
- 24,500
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 95.5%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 1,114
- Extent
- 418 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 56
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Raffaele De Angelis
- Born
- 24 October 1979
- Birthplace
- Castrovillari
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Demetrius the Martyr stands in Piana degli Albanesi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Concattedrale di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (La Martorana), Palermo.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
The whole island of Sicily in Italy falls under a single eparchy (diocese) of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic church sui iuris: the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi. In Arbëreshë Albanian the see is called Eparhia e Horës së Arbëreshëvet, and in Italian, Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.