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] He 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.
[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 his important contributions to early Albanian literature.