Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro

Most Reverend
Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro
Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi
Church Italo-Albanian Catholic
Diocese Hora e Arbëreshëvet
See Piana degli Albanesi
Appointed 31 March 2015
Predecessor Sotir Ferrara
Orders
Ordination 22 May 1972
Personal details
Born (1948-01-16) 16 January 1948
Pozzallo, Italy
Nationality Albanian-Italian
Denomination Italo-Albanian Catholic
Residence Piana degli Albanesi, Palermo, Sicily
Occupation bishop
Profession priest

Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (Pozzallo, 16 January 1948) is the elected Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy. He replaced the most rev. Sotir Ferrara.

Biography

Gallaro was born in Pozzallo[1] on 16 January 1948. After studying in preparation for the priesthood in the seminary of Noto, he moved to Los Angeles where he was ordained a priest in 1972. He worked as a parish priest in various parishes of the Eastern Rite in the United States.[2] In 1987 he incardinated in the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton.

Fr. Gallaro taught Canon Law at the Melkite eparchial seminary, St. Gregory the Theologian, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He then served as a professor of Canon Law at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh. He also served a member of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton’s Presbyteral Council and College of Eparchial Consultors.

On 31 March 2015 he was elected by Pope Francis to the bishopric of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.[3][4] He was ordained on 28 June by the bishop of Lungro Donato Oliverio as principal consecrator, and the bishops Dimitrios Salachas and Nicholas James Samra as co-consecrators.

References

  1. ↑ "Don Giorgio Gallaro è vescovo, Pozzallo in festa" (Archive). Corriere di Ragusa. 1 April 2015. Retrieved on 3 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Nominato Vescovo dell'Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi il Rev.do Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro
  3. ↑ Don Giorgio Gallaro Nuovo vescovo di Piana degli Albanesi
  4. ↑ S.E. Mons. GIORGIO DEMETRIO GALLARO
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Sotir Ferrara		 Bishop of Piana degli Albanesi
from 31 March 2015 		Incumbent
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