Giuseppe Schirò (archbishop)

Giuseppe Schirò (1690-1769) was an Arbëreshë writer of the 18th century, and Catholic priest of the Byzantine Rite. In 1736, he was appointed Byzantine Catholic Archbishop of Durazzo.[1]

For other uses, see Giuseppe Schirò (disambiguation).

Biography

Giuseppe Schirò was born in 1690 in Piana degli Albanesi, an Arbëreshë village of Sicily and there he became a priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church. He is thought to have taken his first lessons from Giorgio Guzzetta.[2]

He became a writer in Greek and in Arbëresh, and later (1736) became Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archdiocese of Durazzo,[3][4] and vicar apostolic in mission of Himara.

Schirò died in 1769 and will be remembered for the important contributions in the early Albanian language writings.[2]

Notes

1. Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Joseph Schirò
2. Demiraj, Bardhyl (2003). "Zef Skiroi në kulturën e shkrimit shqip të shek. XVIII" (PDF). Albanian Orthodox. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
3. Catholic Hierarchy: Archdiocese of Durrës (Durazzo)
4. The Basilian Monks of Grottaferrata/Piana degli Albanesi in Albania

See also

• Piana degli Albanesi