Giuseppe Schirò (archbishop)
Template:Other uses2 Giuseppe Schirò (1690-1769) was an Arbëreshë clergy and writer of the 18th century.
Biography
Giuseppe Schirò 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. He is thought to have taken his first lessons from Giorgio Guzzetta.[1]
He became a writer in Greek and in Arbëresh, and later became archbishop of the short-lived Christian orthodox archdiocesis of Durazzo[2] and vicar apostolic in mission of Himara.
Schirò died in 1769 and will be remembered for the important contributions in the early Albanian language writings.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Demiraj, Bardhyl (2003). "Zef Skiroi në kulturën e shkrimit shqip të shek. XVIII" (PDF). Albanian Orthodox. p. 2. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ The Basilian Monks of Grottaferrata/Piana degli Albanesi in Albania