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. He retired from the See of Lungro on 10 August 2010 at age 76, and died on 6 August 2016, aged 82. ==Episcopal Genealogy==