title: Ercole Lupinacci
text: # Ercole Lupinacci
  
  Ercole Lupinacci (23 November 1933 – 6 August 2016) was an Italian of Arbëreshë ethnicity and Bishop Emeritus of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Ercole Lupinacci was born in San Giorgio Albanese on 23 November 1933. He was ordained an Italo-Albanian Catholic priest on 22 November 1959. He was appointed Bishop of Piana degli Abanesi on 25 March 1981 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.
  
  On 22 November 1987, he was appointed Bishop of Lungro replacing the deceased Bishop Stamati. He retired from the See of Lungro on 10 August 2010 at age 76, and died on 6 August 2016, aged 82.
  
  ## Episcopal Genealogy
  
  * Eparch Isaias Papadopoulos
  * Eparch John Mele
  * Eparch Giovanni Stamati
  * Eparch Ercole Lupinacci
  