Giuseppe Schirò (archbishop)

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.

He became a writer in Greek and in Arbëresh, and later became archbishop of the short-lived Christian orthodox archdiocesis of Durazzo 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.