Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania information
Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Albania
Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania
Administratio Apostolica Albaniae Meridionalis
Administratura Apostolike e Shqiperisë së Jugut
Location
Country
Albania
Territory
Southern Albania
Ecclesiastical province
Tiranë–Durrës
Statistics
Area
16,172 km2 (6,244 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2014) 2,140,000 3,596 (0.2%)
Parishes
11
Information
Denomination
Catholic Church
Sui iuris church
Latin Church and Albanian Greek Catholic Church[1]
Rite
Roman Rite and Byzantine Rite
Established
11 November 1939
Cathedral
Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Louis in Vlorë
Secular priests
8
Current leadership
Pope
Francis
Apostolic Administrator
Giovanni Peragine
Metropolitan Archbishop
George Anthony Frendo
Archbishop of Tiranë–Durrës
Map
Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania
The Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania (Albanian: Administratura Apostolike e Shqiperisë së Jugut, Latin: Administratio Apostolica Albaniae Meridionalis, Italian: Albania Meridionale) is an apostolic administration of the Catholic Church in Albania, covering the southern regions of the country. It has jurisdiction over all Catholics on its territory, both of Latin Church and Byzantine Catholics.[2] It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tiranë–Durrës.[3] Its cathedra is in the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Louis (Albanian: Kisha e Shën Maria dhe Shën Luigji) in the episcopal see of Vlorë.
The Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania constitutes an ecclesiastical territory comprising the Albanian Greek Catholic Church, which itself does not exclusively govern any episcopal jurisdictions.[4] Such claims have been questioned by some leading Eastern Catholic experts.[5]
^Perry, Ken (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, p291
^Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 32 (1940), p. 139-140.
^Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 97 (2005), p. 131-132.
^"Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania". Retrieved 9 November 2021.
^Galadza 2007, pp. 293.
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