Ercole Lupinacci

{{Short description|Italian bishop (1933–2016)}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop Emertius

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Ercole Lupinacci

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| title = Bishop

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| church = Italo-Albanian Catholic

| diocese = Lungro

| ordination = 22 November 1959

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| consecration = 8 August 1981

| consecrated_by = Giovanni Stamati

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|11|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = San Giorgio Albanese

| death_date = {{dda|2016|8|6|1933|11|23|df=y}}

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| 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{{cite web|url=http://www.jemi.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=32|title=Jemi - Il portale per gli arbëreshë|work=jemi.it|accessdate=7 August 2016}} and Bishop of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilmessaggeroitaliano.it/news/e-ritornato-questa-mattina-alla-casa-del-padre-mons-ercole-lupinacci-vescovo-emerito-di-lungro-e-degli-italo-albanesi-dellitalia-continentale/|title=È ritornato alla casa del Padre mons. Ercole Lupinacci vescovo emerito di Lungro e degli Italo-Albanesi dell'Italia continentale - il Messaggero Italiano|date=6 August 2016|work=ilmessaggeroitaliano.it|accessdate=7 August 2016}}

Biography

Ercole Lupinacci was born in San Giorgio Albanese on 23 November 1933. He was ordained an Italo-Albanian Catholic priest on 22 November 1959.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|blupi|Bishop Ercole Lupinacci|21 January 2015}}{{Self-published source|date=August 2016}} He was appointed Bishop of Piana degli Abanesi on 25 March 1981{{cite web|title=Diocese of Piana degli Abanesi|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/pian0.htm|work=Catholic Dioceses in the World|publisher=Giga-Catholic Information|accessdate=4 January 2012}} 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.{{cite web|title=Diocese of Lungro|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/lung0.htm#4765|work=Catholic Dioceses in the World|publisher=Giga-Catholic Information|accessdate=4 January 2012}} He retired from the See of Lungro on 10 August 2010 at age 76, and died on 6 August 2016, aged 82.

Episcopal Genealogy

  • Eparch Isaias Papadopoulos
  • Eparch John Mele
  • Eparch Giovanni Stamati
  • Eparch Ercole Lupinacci

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