Raffaele De Angelis
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Most Reverend Raffaele De Angelis | |||||||||||||||||
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| Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi | |||||||||||||||||
| Church | Italo-Albanian Catholic | ||||||||||||||||
| See | Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi | ||||||||||||||||
| Appointed | 30 August 2025 | ||||||||||||||||
| Installed | 16 November 2025 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 March 1979 Castrovillari, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Albanian-Italian | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Piana degli Albanesi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Prelate | ||||||||||||||||
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Raffaele De Angelis (born 24 October 1979) is an Italo-Albanian prelate of the Greek-Catholic Church and the Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a circumscription of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy.
Raffaele De Angelis was born on 24 October 1979 in Castrovillari, in the province of Cosenza (Calabria), to an Italo-Albanian family from Acquaformosa and Firmo (CS), belonging to the Eparchy of Lungro.[2]
Admitted to the Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius in Rome, he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He received priestly ordination, according to his own Byzantine rite, on 5 November 2006, at the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Acquaformosa (Eparchy of Lungro), by the laying on of hands of Eparch Ercole Lupinacci; he was incardinated as a priest of the same eparchy.[1][3] He held the chair of Moral Theology at the "San Francesco di Sales" Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cosenza, in Rende, attached to the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy.
He speaks fluent Albanian and Italian, while liturgically he also uses Koine Greek, as per the tradition of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church.
