Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (Italian: Chiesa Cattolica Italo-Albanese; Albanian: Kisha Bizantine Arbëreshe), also referred to as the Italo-Albanian Greek Catholic Church and other variants, is one of the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches which, together with the Latin Church, compose the Catholic Church. It is a particular Church that is autonomous (sui juris) and its members are concentrated in Southern Italy (Calabria, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Apulia) and Sicily and use the Byzantine Rite.The Italo-Albanian Church is in communion with the Pope of Rome, and then to the Catholic Church, but follows the ritual and spiritual traditions that are common in most of the Orthodox Church. Church members are the descendants of the exiled Albanians who fled to Italy in the fifteenth century under the pressure of the Turkish persecutions in Albania and the territories inhabited by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Peloponnese. The Albanian population in Italy has maintained over the centuries until today the language, customs and religious rites of origin. This Church defends the heritage ethnic-cultural and religious tradition of the Albanians fathers, keeping alive the spiritual and liturgical tradition of the Eastern Church from the time of Justinian (sixth century). This church, an Byzantine oasis in the Latin West, the only resisted in Italy, is secularly inclined to ecumenism between the Catholic church and the Orthodox church."@en }
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- Italo-Albanian_Catholic_Church abstract "The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (Italian: Chiesa Cattolica Italo-Albanese; Albanian: Kisha Bizantine Arbëreshe), also referred to as the Italo-Albanian Greek Catholic Church and other variants, is one of the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches which, together with the Latin Church, compose the Catholic Church. It is a particular Church that is autonomous (sui juris) and its members are concentrated in Southern Italy (Calabria, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Apulia) and Sicily and use the Byzantine Rite.The Italo-Albanian Church is in communion with the Pope of Rome, and then to the Catholic Church, but follows the ritual and spiritual traditions that are common in most of the Orthodox Church. Church members are the descendants of the exiled Albanians who fled to Italy in the fifteenth century under the pressure of the Turkish persecutions in Albania and the territories inhabited by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Peloponnese. The Albanian population in Italy has maintained over the centuries until today the language, customs and religious rites of origin. This Church defends the heritage ethnic-cultural and religious tradition of the Albanians fathers, keeping alive the spiritual and liturgical tradition of the Eastern Church from the time of Justinian (sixth century). This church, an Byzantine oasis in the Latin West, the only resisted in Italy, is secularly inclined to ecumenism between the Catholic church and the Orthodox church.".