Ercole Lupinacci (23 November 1933 – 6 August 2016) was an Italian of Arbëreshë ethnicity[1] and Bishop of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.
[2] Ercole Lupinacci was born in San Giorgio Albanese on 23 November 1933.
He was ordained an Italo-Albanian Catholic priest on 22 November 1959.
[3] He was appointed Bishop of Piana degli Abanesi on 25 March 1981[4] 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.