LUNGRO, DIOCESE of. — For the Italo-Albanians, Benedict XV, by the constitution Catholici fideles of 12 February 1919, established in Calabria a diocese of its own, with its see at L., extending throughout southern continental Italy.
It has 20 parishes, 37,500 faithful, 32 priests, and 2 congregations of nuns: the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts and the Basilian Sisters of St. Macrina. The priests are trained at the monastery of Grottaferrata and at the Greek College of Rome.
BIBL.: Statistica con cenni storici sulla Chiesa e i cattolici di rito orientale, Vatican City 1932, p. 121 ff.
Guglielmo de Vries