Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi

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.

On 6 February 1784, was established the Ordinariate of Silicia, the first jurisdiction with on ordinary for this particular church sui iuris, and appointed to it the first titular bishop of the Byzantine Rite for the Albanians of Sicily: Giorgio Stassi, Titular Bishop of Lampsacus.

[citation needed] On 26 October 1937, the Eparchy of Piana dei Greci was created by promoting the Ordinariate of Silicia and transferring to it territories from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Monreale (both on Sicily).

[citation needed] The eparchy see is the town of Piana degli Albanesi, where the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius the Martyr is located.

[citation needed] In Palermo, there is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Nicolas "dei Greci" to Martorana.

Episcope and annexed Eparchial Seminary, heir to the destroyed Arbëreshë Seminary of Palermo (1734).